Saturday, September 22, 2012
Kabul (BNA) During the days when anti-polio vaccines are applied even if you have urgent tasks you should apply the vaccines on your children, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai said in his 15-day radio address adding the polio vaccination started when I drooped drops of vaccines into the mouth of some children.
The president added that the children diseases will remain with the children till their fifth year of age and if they are vaccinated they may suffer from those diseases, however, fortunately those discuses have their vaccines and through vaccines were can save our children from affliction to the child diseases.
He stressed that the most dangerous disease of childhood is polio that paralysis the children. If the mother, father or other elders of the family do not apply the vaccine up to their five years of age, they will suffer from this disease and that is very dangerous, it disabled the children and till their last day will be suffer of disability.
He asked the Ulama, imams of mosques, elders, tribal influential and the teacher of the country to voluntarily take part in polio vaccination and cooperate with the health teams that are visiting them at their villages.
He also asked the Taliban so they should not prevent vaccination of children. I ask the Taliban here and tell them not to prevent the health teams to apply vaccination of children in the rural region for this will destroy of the life of the sons and daughters of this country and its application is our responsibility.
President Karzai while asking all the families for application of polio vaccination said that in case despite these efforts you could not get access to polio vaccines you should immediately refer to the hereby health clinics and apply polio vaccines on your children.
