Women’s leadership role stressed to combat polio

LAHORE : Chief Minister’s Focal Person on polio Ms Uzma Kardar Tuesday emphasised on promoting women as leaders in polio eradication, saying females in leadership roles could ensure access of polio teams in every household.

Addressing polio supervisors, Ms Uzma said she held in depth discussions with the polio supervisors, probing them about their issues and the problems.

She emphasised on greater sense of responsibility towards the cause of polio eradication by the polio human force. She assured the polio workers that they would be provided every support to improve their working conditions. She urged the district team to focus on working with the allied government departments so that government workers in polio human resource could be increased.

She recalled that Pakistan and Afghanistan were the last two polio endemic countries on the globe, emphasizing on increased coordination between the two neighbourly countries so that virus could find no space to

circulate.

Punjab has planned a special polio eradication campaign starting from next month on September 9 in 15 districts targeting 13.9 million children.