PESHAWAR: Thirteen new wild type-1 polio cases were confirmed by the National Institute of Health on Tuesday from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) as well as Karachi.
The youngest child Muzammil, aged eight months, a resident of Guldar Bagheecha village in Chaman tehsil had not received any dose of the polio vaccination. This brings the national total to 158 cases: 113 from Fata, 27 from K-P, 12 from Sindh, 2 from Punjab and 3 from Balochistan.
The other cases include Shaqiba, aged 12 months, a resident of Ali Khel Sher Kali village in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency. Other cases from Bara tehsil include Mustafa, aged 30 months, a resident of village Mada Khel Miran Talab, and Riaz, aged 29 months, from village Drangoona Zawa.
From tehsil Razmak in North Waziristan Agency, Akhtar Bilal, aged 12 months, is a resident of village Asad Khel. Abdul Basir, aged 30 months, is a resident of Shoi Khel village in the same tehsil.
From tehsil Wana in South Waziristan, cases include Hameed Ullah, aged 10 months, a resident of village Dana Paloosha, Malalai, aged 9 months and a resident of village Shin Warsak. From tehsil Totali in district Buner, a 2-year-old child Umia and an 18-month-old child Saira from village Dandikot were found to have the polio virus.
From district Tank, Sabeela, aged 13 months, a resident of village Karyana Kalu Parrangi was found to have received no dose of the polio vaccine. Kubra, an 18-month-old girl from village Majoka in district Bhakkar was also found to have the polio virus. The thirteenth case arose from Karachi, where a 22-month-old girl Rafia from Gadap Town was found to carry the virus.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 17th, 2014.
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@Youth of Pakistan:
Exactly. It's no surprise that places with large populations of refugees/migrants from FATA are the worst affected - first FATA, then KPK and then urban Sindh (Karachi hosts a large population of FATA refugees outside of KPK). And it's only about to worsen with the IDP crisis.
I think that for the past few years (especially during Musharraf's govt) our authorities had deliberately been under-reporting polio cases to retain foreign investments. The number of cases is probably much higher than reported in Afghanistan and Nigeria too.
@Dr, Waqas, Hope you have passed your elementary school and can well understand 113 FATA is a bigger number than 27 KPK.
This is virus is spreading from FATA my love, from FATA to the rest of Pakistan.
I have not received this month cheque from PMLN therefore will not defend the Fedral govt. nor i will say something agianst IK.
Once i get the cheque then i will leash my comments
Federal Govt has failed miserably to control this viral, which was first struck in FATA, since then rapidly spreading throughout the nation.
Imran Khan has been yelling at the Fedral Govt to immediately take some measures in FATA where more than 113 cases have been reported which is more than 75% of total reported cases.
But here we see Nawaz Shareef building bridges for his sugar mills.
Wake up Pakistan, before its too late.
Pakistan is clearly losing the War against Polio +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ With severe adverse consequences.