UAE project to vaccinate 3.6m Pakistani children

[Al Bhatti]

May 28, 2014

The UAE Project to Assist Pakistan, UAE PAP, has announced the launch of the UAE vaccination campaign against polio in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and tribal areas in Pakistan.

UAE project to vaccinate 3.6m Pakistani children

UAE campaign to vaccinate over 3m Pakistani children in three months

The UAE Project to Assist Pakistan, UAE PAP, has announced the launch of the UAE vaccination campaign against polio in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and tribal areas in Pakistan.

The campaign comes in implementation of the directives and initiatives of President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan to support the health sector in Pakistan,

The campaign, under the slogan “Health for All.. Better Future”, was launched during a press conference held in Islamabad.

During a statement at the press conference, Abdullah Khalifa Al Gafli, Director of UAE PAP, said that the launch of the UAE vaccination campaign comes as per the directives of Shaikh Khalifa to provide humanitarian and development assistance to the people of Pakistan. “It also comes as part of the initiative of General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, to eradicate polio in the world.”

He pointed out that the UAE campaign is a humanitarian initiative aimed at vaccinating 3.64 million Pakistani children against polio over a period of three months — June, August and September.

Shaikh Mohammad had previously donated Dh440 million as support to the global effort to eradicate polio by 2018, with a special focus on Pakistan and Afghanistan.

This contribution is the second one to be provided by Shaikh Mohammd to deliver life-saving vaccines to children all over the world. In 2011, Shaikh Mohammad and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a strategic partnership whereby a total amount of $100 million, divided equally between the two parties, was presented for the purchase and delivery of vital vaccines for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Also, the Global Vaccine Summit in Abu Dhabi in 2013 saw the announcement of the 2013-2018 Strategic Plan which aims to completely eradicate polio, which would cost the international community $5.5 billion.

UAE project to vaccinate 3.6m Pakistani children | GulfNews.com

 

[Al Bhatti]

Affiliation to political parties and sectarian issues aside, imagine if Pakistan does not have all the help from the friendly nations and the aid/loans/grants we receive from them, keeping in view the politicians we have what will be the state of the nation?

 

[Shahryaar Rehman]

Although it is in itself, an unfortunate matter for another country to be vaccinating our children for us, it is to be understood that at least someone care, despite there being such illiteracy and ungratefulness amongst the people. Hence, as a citizen of Pakistan, I support UAE's step to begin vaccination our children and stand up to help!

 

[Black Widow]

Good move....

 

[Al Bhatti]

 

[Al Bhatti]

May 31, 2014

Polio vaccination campaign sponsored by Mohammad Bin Zayed

Pakistani media praises initiative

The Pakistani media, along with different social communication channels, have praised the initiative launched by General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, to vaccinate children in khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and tribal areas around Fatah province in Pakistan against polio.

Media and social communication channels lauded this humanitarian initiative to protect Pakistani children against dangerous epidemics and diseases that threaten their health and well-being.

They also confirmed that it is a new humanitarian initiative which is a continuous and permanent part of the UAE’s interest in helping and protecting children to ensure them a bright future

News of the UAE’s vaccination campaign against polio was covered in 13 Pakistani newspaper, six television stations and several Pakistani radio stations, all of whom praised the UAE’s efforts and its wise leadership in providing humanitarian and development projects in all parts Pakistan.

Pakistani newspapers also quoted excerpts from the speech of Abdullah Khalifa Al Gafli, Director of the UAE project to assist Pakistan, where he explained that the UAE campaign is a humanitarian operation aimed at vaccinating 3.64 million Pakistani children against polio during a period of three months.

Al Gafli also pointed out that the vaccination campaign will be implemented in collaboration with the Pakistani military, World Health Organisation and the Pakistani Ministry of Health in the provincial governments, under the supervision and participation of specialised medical teams.

Polio vaccination campaign sponsored by Mohammad Bin Zayed | GulfNews.com

 

[Al Bhatti]

June 10, 2014

First phase for polio vaccination in Pakistan
Campaign carried out in the Bara district of Khyber Agency

The UAE Project to Assist Pakistan (PAP) began carrying out the campaign to vaccinate 3.6 million children against polio in Pakistan, carried out under the directives of President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

In its first stage in the Bara district of Khyber Agency, where no vaccination campaign has been implemented since 2009, the two-day campaign last weekend resulted in positive results in covering 279 villages, providing vaccinations to 42,047 children aged from one day to five years. The campaign was carried out by 150 vaccination teams comprising volunteers, doctors and nurses who visited a total of 20,000 families, providing vaccination for their children and registering their data.

The UAE PAP praised the contributions of the Pakistani military, police and local government in ensuring the safety of the vaccination teams and supporting the team’s effort to vaccinate children. It also thanked the World Health Organisation doctors who participated in the vaccination drive. Tribe leaders in the Bara district expressed their heartfelt thanks to Shaikh Khalifa and General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, for their humanitarian directives and initiatives.

The UAE campaign is a humanitarian initiative that aims to vaccinate 3.64 million Pakistani children against polio over a period of three months from June. Shaikh Mohammad had previously donated Dh440 million as support to the global effort to eradicate polio by 2018, with a special focus on Pakistan and Afghanistan.

First phase for polio vaccination in Pakistan | GulfNews.com

 

[Al Bhatti]

Related thread : UAE vaccinates 2.5 million Pakistani children against polio

 

[Al Bhatti]

August 2, 2014

UAE helps polio campaign in Pakistan
3m children vaccinated against polio

The massive UAE campaign to vaccinate three million children under the age of five against poliomyelitis (polio) in Pakistan was successful, the UAE Project to Assist Pakistan (UAE PAP) has announced.

The large-scale preventive health initiative, under the slogan Health for All - Better Future, is being carried out under the directives of President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and comes as part of the initiative of General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, to eradicate polio in the world.

The campaign is a humanitarian initiative aimed at vaccinating 3.64 million Pakistani children against polio over a period of three months — June, August and September — this year.


Shaikh Mohammad had previously donated Dh440 million as a contribution in support of the global effort to eradicate polio by 2018, with special focus on Pakistan and Afghanistan. This contribution is the second one to be provided by Shaikh Mohamed for delivering life-saving vaccines to children all over the world.

UAE PAP management said that June had seen the vaccination of 3.04 million children in 23 districts in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and other tribal areas in Pakistan.


It said that the overwhelming success of the campaign to reach the three million mark in the first month of the three-month initiative proves the UAE’s effective efforts, under the leadership of Shaikh Khalifa, to deliver its noble, humanitarian goals and improve the health of people and prevent diseases and epidemics.


“Shaikh Mohammad’s initiative is important for Pakistan given the fact that the targeted regions are the world’s largest and deeply plagued by polio, but indicators of significant success have emerged from the first day of the campaign,’’ UAE PAP said in a statement.


Mobile units have overcome geographical challenges that prevented previous local and international campaigns from reaching these areas, which accounted for 95 per cent of Pakistan’s polio cases in the past six months, resulting in wider spread of the disease into other areas. Mobile medical teams have ventured into difficult remote mountainous regions to deliver vaccines.


However, the UAE efforts were fruitful thanks to the good planning, perfect field implementation, concerted coordination between the UAE PAP and other stakeholders, including the Pakistani army, local and federal Pakistani health authorities, and the World Health Organisation.


Pakistan is one of three countries where polio is still categorised as an endemic viral infection. WHO warned of the polio situation in Pakistan which reported 198 cases in 2011, the highest in ten years, compared with 58 cases in 2012 and 93 in 2013. Ninety-nine cases were registered in the first seven months of the current year compared with 24 in the same period last year.

UAE helps polio campaign in Pakistan | GulfNews.com

 

[Al Bhatti]

5 August 2014

The driver, whose story is narrated in the film.


A leap of faith in eradicating polio among Pakistani expats

To create awareness about polio among Pakistani expatriates in the UAE, Image Nation Abu Dhabi has produced a short film on the disease titled Leap Of Faith.

The film, spanning over three minutes, is currently being screened across labour camps in the country as part of Image Nation’s multimedia campaign against polio. The short film captures the story of a Pakistani expatriate working as a taxi driver in the UAE and the impact polio has had on his children living in Pakistan.

Polio is an important public health issue in Pakistan, which is one of the last remaining countries where the disease has not been fully eradicated. The UAE and Pakistan have shared a close relationship for many years.

General Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, is committed to supporting polio eradication in Pakistan. The UAE Pakistan Assistance Programme recently launched a vaccination campaign aimed at reaching over 3.5 million children in Pakistan.

Mohammed Al Mubarak, chairman of Image Nation, said: “Image Nation Abu Dhabi is proud to be playing a part in raising awareness about polio within the Pakistani community in the UAE. Working together, we can strive to ensure healthy childhoods for the young people of Pakistan.”

Polio, a disease that mainly affects children, is a highly contagious virus that invades the nervous system and can quickly cause irreversible paralysis. Although the disease does not have a cure, it can easily be prevented with the administration of the polio vaccine.

The film is being screened at various forums in order to reach the Pakistani diaspora, with a supporting advertising campaign running between June and September 2014.

The film can be seen on the campaign’s Facebook page A Leap of Faith | Facebook

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[pursuit of happiness]

May 28, 2014

The UAE Project to Assist Pakistan, UAE PAP, has announced the launch of the UAE vaccination campaign against polio in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and tribal areas in Pakistan.

UAE project to vaccinate 3.6m Pakistani children

UAE campaign to vaccinate over 3m Pakistani children in three months

The UAE Project to Assist Pakistan, UAE PAP, has announced the launch of the UAE vaccination campaign against polio in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and tribal areas in Pakistan.

The campaign comes in implementation of the directives and initiatives of President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan to support the health sector in Pakistan,

The campaign, under the slogan “Health for All.. Better Future”, was launched during a press conference held in Islamabad.

During a statement at the press conference, Abdullah Khalifa Al Gafli, Director of UAE PAP, said that the launch of the UAE vaccination campaign comes as per the directives of Shaikh Khalifa to provide humanitarian and development assistance to the people of Pakistan. “It also comes as part of the initiative of General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, to eradicate polio in the world.”

He pointed out that the UAE campaign is a humanitarian initiative aimed at vaccinating 3.64 million Pakistani children against polio over a period of three months — June, August and September.

Shaikh Mohammad had previously donated Dh440 million as support to the global effort to eradicate polio by 2018, with a special focus on Pakistan and Afghanistan.

This contribution is the second one to be provided by Shaikh Mohammd to deliver life-saving vaccines to children all over the world. In 2011, Shaikh Mohammad and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a strategic partnership whereby a total amount of $100 million, divided equally between the two parties, was presented for the purchase and delivery of vital vaccines for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Also, the Global Vaccine Summit in Abu Dhabi in 2013 saw the announcement of the 2013-2018 Strategic Plan which aims to completely eradicate polio, which would cost the international community $5.5 billion.

UAE project to vaccinate 3.6m Pakistani children | GulfNews.com

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good move...
UAE good job..
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though it provided vaccine but it need more than that ..
vaccination is just one step of project managment
1.vacination . .. monitoring..... review ... case to case follow up and closure ...logistics for vaccine for quaity control..
HR trainig.
all these india did well if not mastred..
india can help immensely.. with this..
or
if not india
go to WHO.. they have best practices and HR ..
but do it ASAP....

 

[Viny]

Good move,
Problem is how they plan to go ahead with implementation part. Thats where all the hurdle is, shooting down the vaccinating team. False propagation about contains and side effects etc.

Probably making it mandatory to for the panchayats, blocks leaders, division heads to ensure proper communication and ensuring success. Involving the religious leaders, eminent personalities and both government and armed forces people in media campaign as well as ground level campaign will probably help in reducing the trust deficit.

Pakistan can learn a lot form India's fight against Polio and entire campaign.

 

[Al Bhatti]

5 August 2014

The driver, whose story is narrated in the film.


A leap of faith in eradicating polio among Pakistani expats

To create awareness about polio among Pakistani expatriates in the UAE, Image Nation Abu Dhabi has produced a short film on the disease titled Leap Of Faith.

The film, spanning over three minutes, is currently being screened across labour camps in the country as part of Image Nation’s multimedia campaign against polio. The short film captures the story of a Pakistani expatriate working as a taxi driver in the UAE and the impact polio has had on his children living in Pakistan.

Polio is an important public health issue in Pakistan, which is one of the last remaining countries where the disease has not been fully eradicated. The UAE and Pakistan have shared a close relationship for many years.

General Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, is committed to supporting polio eradication in Pakistan. The UAE Pakistan Assistance Programme recently launched a vaccination campaign aimed at reaching over 3.5 million children in Pakistan.

Mohammed Al Mubarak, chairman of Image Nation, said: “Image Nation Abu Dhabi is proud to be playing a part in raising awareness about polio within the Pakistani community in the UAE. Working together, we can strive to ensure healthy childhoods for the young people of Pakistan.”

Polio, a disease that mainly affects children, is a highly contagious virus that invades the nervous system and can quickly cause irreversible paralysis. Although the disease does not have a cure, it can easily be prevented with the administration of the polio vaccine.

The film is being screened at various forums in order to reach the Pakistani diaspora, with a supporting advertising campaign running between June and September 2014.

The film can be seen on the campaign’s Facebook page A Leap of Faith | Facebook

A leap of faith in eradicating polio among Pakistani expats - Khaleej Times

In continuation to the above here is the video:

 

[Al Bhatti]

Project was for 3.6 m children it has so far covered around 5.8 million children

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August 23, 2014

The UAE vaccination campaign has exceeded the targeted sectors in 23 areas.

5m Pakistani children vaccinated against polio
UAE Pakistan Assistance Programme a huge success

The UAE Pakistan Assistance Programme announced that over 5.8 million Pakistani children were vaccinated against polio during the June and July under the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan to boost the health sector’s preventive programmes in Pakistan.

The move also comes in line with the initiative of General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, to eradicate polio worldwide.

The programme said the UAE vaccination campaign has been a huge success by exceeding the targeted sector in 23 areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the tribal region. It vaccinated 3.4 million children in June, and 2.38 million in July, bringing the total number of the vaccinated children to 5.87.

The administration of the programme noted that during July the vaccination was stepped up in the areas where displaced people live and the tribal region to reach out to those not vaccinated for years. It managed to vaccinate 2,3 million children under the age of six in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the tribal region.

It emphasised the importance of Shaikh Mohammad’s initiative to eradicate polio in the world’s most difficult and disease-incubator areas, adding that the initiative reflects the UAE leadership’s humanitarian support to the people of Pakistan who appreciated the UAE and its leadership for their humanitarian stance.

Earlier, the World Health Organisation warned of the danger of a polio epidemic in Pakistan, which in 2011 recorded the highest number of polio cases in 10 years, with a total of 198 cases. In 2012, a total of 58 cases were recorded, while in 2013, a total of 93 cases were recorded.

In the first seven months of this year, 99 cases were recorded, compared with 24 cases in the same period in 2013.

Pakistan is one of only three countries in the world which remain polio-endemic.

5m Pakistani children vaccinated against polio | GulfNews.com

 

[A1Kaid]

Have to get eastern Afghanistan vaccinated too, many of the people cross the Pakistan border and cause reinfection.