ISLAMABAD, Feb 17 (APP): Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid Monday urged media to support present government in addressing hard-core polio refusals and urged religious leaders and all stakeholders to convince parents to vaccinate their children and take up the issue as a national cause. Talking to a private news channel, She emphasized the need for countering propaganda against polio vaccine specially on social media, saying collective efforts were need of the hour to save new generation from crippling virus. She urged the entire nation to actively participate in the ongoing anti-polio drive which would continue from Feb 17 to Feb 21 all across the country. Yasmin Rashid said media could play an important role in polio eradication by raising public awareness about the disease and importance of vaccination to prevent child deaths and disabilities. “We have the only challenge to change the mind sets of parents for cooperation with the government who are influenced of the negative propaganda of certain anti-state elements and refused to vaccine their infants that also endangered all the new born children against this chronic disease”, she added. Minister said parent’s refusal is the biggest challenge for us to eradicate polio from its soil. She … Continue reading Propaganda against polio vaccination should be ignored