Imran to open ‘Sehat Ka Ittehad’ campaign on Feb 8
- January 30, 2015, 1:45 pm
- Political News
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PESHAWAR Jan 30 (Online): Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan will inaugurate the ‘Sehat Ka Ittehad’ (alliance for health) immunisation campaign in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa simultaneously on February 8.
The ceremony in this regard will take place in the Governor’s House, Peshawar, where Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan and Chief Minister Pervez Khattak will also be present.
A total of 12 one-day rounds will be held during which 2.5 million children will be immunised against nine vaccine-preventable childhood ailments, including polio.
Health officials said that the PML-N and PTI had joined forces to eradicate polio.
Both the parties are poles apart as far as their role in the national politics is concerned, but the launching of SKI has pleased the WHO, Unicef and other donor agencies, who have been insisting on unified efforts in the KP and Fata.
The KP governor and chief minister materialised the idea floated by the PTI chairman following detection of 179 and 69 polio cases in the Fata and KP, respectively, in 2014.
The campaign seeks to immunise children in Khyber, North and South Waziristan agencies and Frontier Region, Bannu, and 10 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, including five central and as many southern districts.
