polio

The virus in the OPV is processed in a way that it cannot cause harm at any level

UNICEF Underserved Strategy Coordinator shares how refusals and missing children in UP were brought into the OPV net

EOC coordinator says security and polio team performance has improved marginally

Those involve in immunisation drives sas more needs to be done to raise awareness in the region

Peshawar nazim says by-laws in place whereby DC will lead fight against virus

UNICEF and WHO heads informed the meeting about the shortage of the vaccine and poor supply of logistics

Coordinator National Emergency Operation Cell for Polio confident the gap will be fulfilled

Introduced IPV in tribal areas in 2013

Advisory group holds meeting at Islamic university

Killing of Bajaur polio supervisor condemned

The meeting was not satisfied by immunisation facilities and placement of health staff at Pak-Afghan Friendship Gate

He was a medical technician who had worked at the Agency Headquarters Hospital Khar

The supervisor was shot at by unidentified assailants outside his clinic; five suspects held

Says number of cases reduced in province proof of success

Japanese delegation in Pakistan to get firsthand information

Deputy commissioners are coordinating with the teams to make the drive successful

Sajeed Khan studies at UoP with aspirations to take up teaching as career

Efforts made to vaccinate children in North and South Waziristan

Had said earlier they would abstain from polio drive

Aim is to inoculate over 3.28 million children under the age of five against the crippling disease

IMB meeting urges concerted efforts between Pakistan, Afghanistan

Sewage samples in city test positive for wild polio virus after five months

The delay in paying wages reflects the lack of seriousness on the part of the provincial government

Let us pay our health workers that what they deserve. Only then can we move forward

Total number of cases from K-P climbs to 14

Campaign to be conducted in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan, Muzaffargarh, DI Khan

This is the fourth polio case reported in Quetta and the sixth in Balochistan this year

Some 0.1m children who had previously missed inoculation also vaccinated

Manoel Izo carries his 20-month-old daughter around on his crutches

JUI-S chief says all such rumours are baseless

The EDO urged parents, to come forward and play their role to eliminate the disease from the society

Five NIDs and four SNID’s planned to vaccinate 36 million and 15 million children, respectively

PM briefed that 13 cases reported from K-P so far this year

Experts say fewer cases have been reported in 2015

UNICEF regional coordinator says it is crucial to access children in Fata.

Officials at the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Islamabad confirmed the fresh cases

After the emergence of new cases the total number of polio cases has risen to 32 across the country this year

Our problems and challenges aside, there are fundamental questions we have to ask ourselves

Preliminary tests showed that a 19-month-old was paralysed on July 20, seven days before being brought to Mali

Five-year-old girl was not allowed inoculation on religious grounds.

Pakistan can and must eradicate polio. There is no other choice

Authorities hope to eradicate the crippling virus by 2016

This is the first case of polio in Europe since 2010 and in Ukraine since 1996

No child of the targeted group will be left out, he claimed

Only nine drives will be carried out between Sep and May next year

Children across Fata to be immunised by government teams

Inactivated polio vaccine to be included in health department’s routine immunisation programme

Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation funds supply till 2017

More than four million children will benefit from the vaccine which will be incorporated into immunisation schedule

Ministry instructs three provinces to include the vaccine in EPI by mid-September.