Islamabad: Aug 15, 2020 (TNS): Co-Chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates has appreciated Pakistan’s success against Covide-19 despite resource constraints.<\/p>\n
According to ISPR, he was talking to Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa on telephone about Pakistan’s Covid-19 response and resumption of polio campaign.<\/p>\n
Bill Gates also conveyed appreciation for Pakistan Army for supporting national polio drive, ensuring proper reach and coverage.<\/p>\n
The Army Chief attributed the success in fight against Covid-19 to a true national response executed through the mechanism of National Command and Operation Center, which allowed optimisation of resources.<\/p>\n
About Pakistan’s efforts against polio, the Army Chief said it was a national cause and national effort for a polio free Pakistan. He said credit goes to grassroots workers including mobile teams, Law Enforcement Agencies and healthcare representatives.<\/p>\n
Both also discussed the safe start and efforts needed to effectively conduct polio campaign under COVID environment.<\/p>\n
Bill Gates reiterated The Gates foundation ongoing commitment to fight pandemics around the world and to support Pakistan in its goals of ending polio and improving health for every child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Islamabad: Aug 15, 2020 (TNS): Co-Chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates has appreciated Pakistan’s success against Covide-19 despite resource constraints. According to ISPR, he was talking to Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa on telephone about Pakistan’s Covid-19 response and resumption of polio campaign. Bill Gates also conveyed appreciation for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92894","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=92894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92896,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92894\/revisions\/92896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}