polio

Around 241,000 children below the age of five will be immunised against polio virus on Saturday and Sunday in Karachi.

Candidate alleges nepotism in recruitment, claims he was threatened for disclosing the bias.

Education dept holds salaries of 36 teachers .

Partial campaigns being carried out in sensitive districts where risk of attacks is higher.

Vaccination drive for 20 other districts on the cards.

Polio workers in Pakistan risk everything to free the country from a crippling disease

ASI Ali was shot in the head while guarding a polio team in Orangi town area of Karachi on January 19

To eradicate polio, Pakistan needs to do the same things that Nigeria did, Gates says

Some 34.7m children inoculated against a target of 35.5m

Say they will not carry guns to school because that would negatively affect students.

Meeting of technical advisory body to be held on Feb 14-15.

Vaccination drive remains unaffected by the shooting

Around 3.3m children to be vaccinated in 14 areas which constitute 88 per cent of the 303 cases recorded in 2014

WHO delegation urges government to do more for polio eradication.

Father ends up in jail for refusing his child polio vaccine along with two health workers.

Officials say K-P govt on target to immunise over 5 million children

We were consistently reaching 85 percent of kids or more in Syria in the last 12 months says WHO's polio manager

It is difficult to find a single instance of anybody being prosecuted for attacking a polio team

Only 280 policemen provided against request for 500 cops

Ban will be effective from Tuesday, 12am, through Thursday

Govt says ample security arrangements in place

Two cases each confirmed in K-P, FATA and one each in Sindh and Punjab.

Initiative will also help counter refusals by parents to administer vaccines of polio and other preventable diseases

As many as 35 cases of refusals were reported by vaccinators in the recent polio drive

The camps will be established by the ministry’s Emergency Operation Centre for polio in collaboration with Unicef

Technical Advisory Group is being requested to discuss polio eradication strategy in light of security situation

Govt needs to focus on how to neutralise the perceptions that are allowing polio to have a stranglehold on Pakistan

Child not administered polio drops during the routine immunisation campaign

Twenty six months old infant detected with crippling virus in Brab Chah area of Chagai district

Health officials say refusals, cultural norms and security issues responsible for increasing polio cases.

Jundullah militant group claimed responsibility for the killing

Identified as Sarfaraz, the vaccinator was administering polio drops in city's Peoples Colony

Both officers were asked to perform security duty with polio vaccinators and volunteers in Buner district

Total number of polio cases reported so far this year reaches 276

DCO announces to include Pukhtun representatives in polio eradication committees.

Provincial tally has reached 17

Two pertain to FATA, one to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa while the fourth is from Balochistan

Best way to honour the sacrifice 65 polio martyrs is to make sure that never again does any worker face death

Polio type-I virus was confirmed in two children; both of them belonging to Khyber Agency

Government and opposition do want to rid this country of polio; that is not in any doubt. Do they want it bad enough?

Eradicating polio was almost within national grasp five years ago, since then, the downwards slide has been inexorable

Workers tortured when they went to administer polio drops to a house in Ravi Town

Home Minister Balochistan Sarfraz Bugti says important disclosure expected during interrogation with arrested suspects

Health dept report on recent campaign says 12,224 parents refused to have their children vaccinated

To discuss security challenges that were hampering efforts to eradicate the crippling disease

Polio drive suspended; LHWs boycott campaign, call for foolproof security

Masked men shot a woman in front seat, then opened indiscriminate fire on others sitting in the back of the pickup van

Polio virology laboratory at the National Institute of Health confirms cases

Another narrowly escapes assault after spotting the militants.

Monday's second polio case reported from Sheikhupura in Sindh, raising national tally to 262 cases