Islamabad: Federal Minister for Health Syed Mustafa Kamal on Thursday said that providing vaccines to every child in the country is our top priority.
The Federal Minister was presiding the review meeting of the National Expanded Programme for Immunization (EPI).
Representatives from all provinces including Gilgit Baltistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir ,international partners, United Nations International Children Educational Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organization (WHO), GAVI, Gates Foundation were fully participated in the meeting.
The Minister was briefed on progress on EPI program and challenges faced in the execution of the program.
It was apprised that the aim is not number of activities but to decrease burden of diseases and a creation of the healthy society.
The Minister gave positive suggestion for removing a gap between service delivery and people impression and said that we will have turned to pull strategy leaving behind push strategy.
Syed Mustafa Kamal Urged to create such an environment that parents understand an importance of protective injections and voluntarily turn to immunization centers to vaccinate their children.
He clarified that the federal and provincial governments joining together will ensure all necessary measures to bring coverage of the EPI program to 95 percent.
The meeting was aimed at no any child remained deprive of protective injections facility and every citizen proceed to healthy future.
Syed Mustafa Kamal apprised that the national EPI program has a target of 95 percent vaccine coverage, substantial decreases in the diseases and healthy society.
