Ten fresh polio cases emerged in different parts of the country on Monday, taking the overall tally for this year so far to 184. The cases were tested at the polio virology laboratory of the National Institute of Health (NIH), according to a health ministry official.
Of the fresh cases, two each were from Frontier Region (FR) Bannu and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, four from Khyber Agency and two from Karachi. The cases from FR Bannu are a 10-month-old boy, resident of Jani Khel area, and a six-month-old girl from Bakka Khel area.
Similarly, a 48-month-old girl, from Koga union council of Buner district, and 14-month-old boy, from Mayar area of Mardan district, tested positive in K-P.
The afflicted children from Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency are a six-month-old boy and a one-year-old girl from Mera Aka Khel area, and a seven-month-old boy and a 15-month-old girl from Ajab Talab area.
Additionally, two children tested positive from Gadap Town of Karachi.
The health ministry official added that with the new cases, the tally for this year so far has reached 184.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 30th, 2014.
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The continuing prevalence of Polio in Pakistan is the inevitable outcome of Pakistan’s obsession for boxing above her weight class and nurturing an outsize military in order to seek parity with India leaving limited resources for carrying out a sustained and widespread polio vaccination programme which is near 100% effective.
Till such time as Pakistan accepts the immutable reality that she is inferior to India and throttles back on parity seeking military expenditure, Pakistan’s civilians will continue to suffer from the scourge of easily preventable diseases like Polio which requires nothing more than the administration of a vaccine to prevent.
Seeking parity with India by gorging on shiny new eye candy weapon systems, maintaining the Generals, Marshalls and Admirals of the Military in the princely Mughal style they are used to and strutting the world stage as the “Sole Islamic Nuclear Power” and “Citadel of Islam”, will as former Prime Minister Z.A. Bhutto put it require Pakistan “Eating Grass”.