{"id":13848,"date":"2017-08-15T15:58:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T10:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=13848"},"modified":"2017-08-15T15:58:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T10:58:51","slug":"khaqan-abbasi-says-government-committed-to-polio-eradication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=13848","title":{"rendered":"Khaqan Abbasi says government committed to Polio eradication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD Aug. 15 (TNS):<\/strong> Chairing a high level meeting in Islamabad on Tuesday, the Prime Minister said that the government is committed to Polio eradication from the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister said eradication of polio is a matter of survival of our next generation. That is why we take full ownership of polio eradication.<\/p>\n<p>He directed to immediately call a meeting of the National Task Force on Polio Eradication and stated that he will personally monitor the progress.<\/p>\n<p>Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said Polio eradication requires a concerted effort from provincial governments, law enforcing agencies, district administration, civil society and international donors.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister expressed satisfaction over the progress made by the Ministry of National Health Services and the National Polio Eradication Program in significantly restricting the polio virus.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for National Health Services Saira Afzal Tarar and Chairperson, National Polio Eradication Program Ayesha Raza Farooq briefed the Prime Minister on progress regarding polio eradication.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Aug. 15 (TNS): Chairing a high level meeting in Islamabad on Tuesday, the Prime Minister said that the government is committed to Polio eradication from the country. The Prime Minister said eradication of polio is a matter of survival of our next generation. That is why we take full ownership of polio eradication. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589,110,115],"class_list":["post-13848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national","tag-times-international-news-agency","tag-times-international-news-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13849,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848\/revisions\/13849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}