Orientation session for paediatricians organised

By Bureau report
October 10, 2024
Participants pose for a group photo during a two-day orientation session for leading paediatricians and healthcare providers of the Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan divisions on October 9, 2024. — Facebook/Emergency Operations Centre Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Participants pose for a group photo during a two-day orientation session for leading paediatricians and healthcare providers of the Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan divisions on October 9, 2024. — Facebook/Emergency Operations Centre Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

PESHAWAR: The Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, organized a two-day orientation session for leading paediatricians and healthcare providers of Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan divisions.

The session was organized in collaboration with the provincial chapter of Pakistan Pediatric Association (PPA) and with the support of United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) at a hotel here, said an official communique.

The orientation session, it added, was aimed at chalking out a strategy for overcoming the existing challenges in eradication of polio virus in the endemic zone of Southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The session was chaired jointly by Deputy Coordinator EOC Muhammad Zeshan Khan and President PPA KP Prof Dr Muhamamd Hussain and attended by Dr Mushtaq Tanoli, District Health Officer, Abbottabad, Dr Tayeba Mumtaz.