{"id":929,"date":"2016-02-17T04:58:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T04:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningpost.today\/eng\/?p=929"},"modified":"2016-02-17T04:58:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T04:58:43","slug":"religious-figures-must-take-part-in-eliminating-poliovirus-mufti-samiullah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/religious-figures-must-take-part-in-eliminating-poliovirus-mufti-samiullah\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious figures must take part in eliminating poliovirus, Mufti Samiullah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fazal Khaliq\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MINGORA: A local religious leader, Mufti Samiullah, has rolled up his sleeves to help eradicate the deadly poliovirus from Swat valley and he along with his team is actively taking part in the three-day anti-polio campaign that started on Feb 15.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The payer leader is on a transit duty at the main gate of Saidu Teaching Hospital where he not only personally immunises children, but also motivates parents to do so in future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I saw so many volunteers taking part in the anti-polio drive I also wished to serve the humanity and take part in the campaign. I went to the polio vaccination office and learnt everything about the drops and found it essential for the children\u2019s health,\u201d the prayer leader said.<\/p>\n<p>Mufti Samiullah usually advocates administering polio drops to children in his sermons. He said that every person in the society should come forward and take part in the campaign.<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the holy Quran, saving life of one human being means saving the entire mankind. It is our religious duty not only to urge parents to inoculate their children, but also to take part in the drive personally,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be part of the anti-polio campaign until the virus is eliminated from Pakistan,\u201d he vowed and asked the religious scholars to take part in the campaign to make it a success.<\/p>\n<p>He also urged the parents to save their children from permanent disability by vaccinating them against poliovirus.<\/p>\n<p>The polio staff in the district is also happy with the work of Mufti Samiullah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday the Mufti inoculated 236 children at this gate and his today\u2019s progress is also encouraging,\u201d said Mohammad Ghaffar, area supervisor of the campaign in Saidu Sharif, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He said that ulema could play a vital role in the polio eradication campaign. Over 1,300 teams are taking part in the campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fazal Khaliq\u00a0 MINGORA: A local religious leader, Mufti Samiullah, has rolled up his sleeves to help eradicate the deadly poliovirus from Swat valley and he along with his team is actively taking part in the three-day anti-polio campaign that started on Feb 15. The payer leader is on a transit duty at the main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[253,18,254],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}