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National Surveillance Cell |
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Organization of AFP Surveillance includes the establishment
of National Surveillance Cell (NS CELL) with the provincial
desks in Islamabad to coordinate the AFP surveillance
activities at the National level. NS CELL is carrying out
the core functions (detection, confirmation, analysis,
response) and support functions (training, supervision,
communication, resource management). Four provincial desks
have been created in the cell looking after all the four
provinces, AJK and FANA and there is one Data Management
Cell which is responsible for timely transmission of
weekly polio update to the main office of in Cairo EMRO &
Data Analysis, Data Management & making maps . WHO has also recruited Surveillance
Officers (SOs) at the district level. The job of these field
officers is to establish active Surveillance both in public
and private sector health facilities for AFP cases by
frequently visiting hospitals, rehab centers, GPs,
pediatricians and community leaders. Their work is also to
ensure the quality of the data. |
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Surveillance Team consist of following staff members: |
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| WHO Senior medical
officer |
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Dr. Nima Saeed Abid |
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| National
surveillance coordinator |
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Dr. Obaid ul Islam |
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| Federal
surveillance officer |
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Dr. Mufti Zubair
Wadood |
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| Federal
surveillance officer |
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Dr. Pervaiz Yousaf |
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| Federal
surveillance officer |
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Dr. Tahir Abbas
Malik |
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| Admin Assistant
(National Surveillance Cell) |
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| Federal Database Manager |
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Mr. Muhammad
Muzaffar Khan |
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| Federal Data
Assistant |
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Mr. Fayyaz Ahmed
Malik |
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Data Assistant |
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Mr. Syed Hassaan
Hasan |
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