His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, today attended, a discussion session under the title "Every last child-- eradicating polio" at his Ramadan Majlis.

The seminar examined the International and UAE's efforts to combat polio across the world and particularly in Pakistan.

Abdullah Khalifa Al Ghafli, Director of UAE Project to Assist Pakistan (PAP) disclosed the successful results of the second phase of the Emirates Polio Campaign in Pakistan in implementation of the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan is aimed to provide humanitarian an development aid, support health sector and its preventive programmes in Pakistan which came in the light of the initiative of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces to eradicate polio across the world.

He added that final successful results were successful through immunization of millions of Pakistani children with more than 73.2 million polio vaccines from January to May 2015.

He reiterated that success the humanitarian efforts and initiatives which came in implementation to the directives of the wise leadership of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa proves for the whole world that the UAE's efforts are effective and distinguished, adding these efforts and initiatives are aimed to enhance human health and societies as well as achieve their humanitarian objectives.

He also highlighted the initiative of Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed is aimed to eradicate polio in the most difficult areas of the incubator of the disease across the world.
Source: WAM