Dear Colleagues, Our dear and beloved PDG Haiy Khan just passed away. A dedicated and committed Rotarian for last 47 years is no longer with us. Family is making burial arrangements and we will inform you once we have them. Spouse of PDG Haiy Khan can be reached on khan.martin@gmail.com. Cell of his son Matin [...]
Read more...The people of Pakistan wait with bated breath, as each new day evolves into a week and weeks into months. The WHO AFP Surveillance Update on 15th April ‘2010 has not reported a single polio case since 9th March 2010, making it a total of 37 days since the last polio case was reported. The [...]
Read more...15th, 16th & 17th February, the national Polio eradication days were observed as usual by Rotary Club of Lahore Sharqi on all the 3 days. 15th & 16th Feb 2010 Polio awareness The following 3 institutions were visited to render the service, namely PSRD (Pakistan Society for the Rehabilitation of Disable) Balooch Ideal School Deaf [...]
Read more...Rotary Club of Karachi Universal held a Polio Camp at captioned school on 15th February 2010 at 10:00 AM as Part of National Immunization day of 2010 which is of significant due to introduction of New vaccine which covers two type of Polio Virus. The camp was inaugurated by Chairman, National Polio Plus Committee, PDG [...]
Read more...This club actively participated in NID on Sunday the 13th February, 2010 by immunizing 288 children up to five years of age at Goth Kumbhar Para, Hyderabad. This campaign was carried out on door to basis by the this club with the help of medical students of Liaquat University of Medical & Health sciences, Jamshoro. [...]
Read more...Dear Rotary Presidents, The NIDs is focused on polio awareness campaigns on a National level. The object is to target every child in urban and rural areas in Pakistan who may have not received the oral polio vaccine (OPV) is important to help eradicate polio from our country. Several activities for the NIDs scheduled on [...]
Read more...As per decision our club participated in the NIDs held during the month of December. The President approached PDG Aziz Memon to obtained Rotary giveaways items, e.g. Caps, T-Shirts, Pencils, Books, Badges. Arrangement were made to obtain vaccine which was difficult to get but with the help of PDG Haiy Khan who was kind enough [...]
Read more...Members of Rotary Club of Hyderabad club actively participated in Sub National Immunization Day on Sunday the 13th December, 2009 by immunizing 282 children up to five years of age at Village Kumbhar Para, Hyderabad. Each child was given two drops of polio vaccine. The campaign was made on door to door basis. Special care [...]
Read more...Dear Rotary Presidents, The World Health Organization’s report on the AFP Weekly Surveillance Update for Week 48 (Ended on Dec 05, 2009) clearly indicates that to-date in 2009, Pakistan has reported a total of 82 confirmed polio cases in 31 district/agencies/towns, including 57 type-1, 24 type-3 cases and one case that is a mixture of [...]
Read more...Polio eradication has been a mission for Rotary for many years and Rotary International has spent millions of dollars on its campaign. Rotary Club of Lahore Mozang joined hands with the Punjab Health Department and set up a camp in Hassan Town where our club is already running a dispensary benefiting a community badly in [...]
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