3 days door to door polio campaign continue at Chitral.
CHITRAL: Like other parts of the country 3 days door-to-door polio campaign continue at Chitral. Maulana Khaleequz Zaman Khateeb Shahi Masjid Chitral inaugurated polio drive. While EDO Health Dr. Sher Qayum, Medical Superintendent of DHQ Hospital Dr. Nazir Ahmad, EPI Coordinator Dr. Inayatullah was also present on the occasion. Addressing to the ceremony EDO Health said that there were only 15 polio cases in Pakistan in past but recently its number increased and now 70 polio cases registered in Pakistan as 30 cases were detected in Peshawar due to refusal from polio drops. Maulana Khaleequz Zaman said that Islam is a health friendly religious and always stressed on cleanliness for protection of life and improving hygienic conditions. He said Islam preach us that saving life of one person is just like to save the whole world. He said there are no Islamic barriers in administering polio drops to children to save them from Polio abuse. To success Polio drive EPI have detailed 231 mobile teams while polio drops would also be administered at 29 fixed centers to achieve the target of 75682 children under the age of 5 years. Similarly polio drops will also be given to children at 3 transit point while the drive will be monitored by 3 campaign support persons, 7 district health teams, 4 independent monitors and 1 district survival officer. Dr. Inayatullah EPI Coordinator appeal parents to inform them in case of arrival of no health team at toll free numbr 080012012 to arrange for an other team and to assure that Chitral is a Polio Free district.
Multi Stakeholder Forum organized in Chitral
CHITRAL: The Regional Women Empowerment Project, a project of AKRSP Chitral organized a one day multi stakeholders forum with an aim to gather all the major Chitral based stakeholder organizations in a common platform to highlight the various dimensions of women rights violations in Chitral.
The event was attended by a large number both men and women representing various Govt, Non government and Civil Society Organization from across Chitral District. The gathering, at the end of the day, devised recommendations to address women right violations around four themes i.e. legal rights, political rights, social and economic rights. The Regional Women Empowerment Project would follow these recommendations in its current three years phase as action plan.
Regional Program Manager AKRSP, Eng. Sardar Ayub while addressing the gathering emphasized on joining hands in the struggle of women empowerment, in turn, reducing gender inequality in Chitral. He said that empowerment of women has its origin in Islam and the culture of Chitral is well equipped with examples of role models and that it’s not a foreign agenda that AKRSP and its projects have been following since decades.
Dr Inayatullah Faizi, a renowned scholar gave an overview on the history and dimensions of women empowerment in Chitral during different ages.
Shah Karez, a local development practitioner and educationist, who has also been working in Afghanistan and Iraq with different organizations, concluded the event. In his concluding remarks, Shah Karez said that Education, though a long term process, is the only solution to all the rout causes of the imbalances in the society in terms of gender.
The event was concluded with a vote of thanks from Imtiaz Ahmad, Project Manager for Regional Women Empowerment Project Chitral.
The RWEP has commenced its activities in Chitral July this year with the financial assistance of Trocaire, an Irish development agency.
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