polio

Officials said provincial government adopted strict security measures to ensure that children were administered drops.

The consequences of losing the fight against polio are unthinkable, and as of today we are not winning

These invisible women, and tens of thousands like them, go about their business quietly and without fuss.

Top official of WHO says Pakistan remains the ‘single most important stumbling block along the road to ending polio’.

Polio virus has three strains - P1, P2 and P3. Immunity from any one strain does not protect a person from other two.

Two cases reported from FATA, one from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa one from Karachi, one from Balochistan.

Provincial govt certain that the pilot project will bring about a positive change.

Polio drive had aimed to inoculate 754,383 in 97 union councils.

Two children diagnosed; one each from Peshawar and Khyber .

Officials fear the number of victims will rise

This year's tally rises to 164

Total number of polio cases reported this year has reached 158.

The one-day drive in Charsadda was instead staffed by 400 teachers.

The government has voiced its support, in theory, but those goals have not been translated into effective strategy.

Approval comes in wake of discovery of eight new cases

If the government cannot guarantee successful anti-polio drives, the programme should be outsourced to a third party

128 megawatts Keyal Khwar Hydropower Project in K-P at a rationalised cost of Rs27.8 billion also approved.

The total number of confirmed polio cases in the country this year now stands at 146

Number of polio cases in the country reaches 143

This is 2014’s first polio case in Quetta, and second in Balochistan

Team attacked while administering polio drops to children in Damadola- a village in the Agency

LHWs to boycott vaccination campaigns till their former president is reinstated.

Man posing as an income tax officer shot and killed a 45-year-old lady health worker at her home in Cantt View Colony

Four of the infected children hail from one tehsil in Khyber Agency — Bara.

Health workers say govt trying to strong arm them even as they remain unpaid.

Special teams had been formed for the purpose of the drive, and children from militancy-hit areas had been vaccinated

Total count rises to 127 this year

Of the 122 children diagnosed with the disease, 89 are from the tribal areas.

COMNet role in social mobilisation helped with the achievement, says Unicef media officer .

The polio vaccination certificate is mandatory for Pakistanis travelling out of the country.

Iqra is the 20th case reported from the province and had not been administered OPV.

Polio control focal person claims lady health workers have been paid.

Vaccine supply from Islamabad has been delayed.

Police said around a 7,260-strong force will provide security in Peshawar and will be paid Rs800 per day.

The delegation included Amado Caro of UNDSS, team leader Sualeh Tamash and WHO security officer Mannas Baivatu.

Pay the LHW’s what they are owed and get the anti-polio campaign back on track.

Over 300,000 children to miss vaccinations in Waziristan, Khyber Agency.

Say engaging them for other tasks can compromise education results.

Plans afoot to try and vaccinate children at sit-in venue.

The Sindh government needs to step in and the one-day model of launching a massive campaign needs to be applied.

The new polio cases have taken the total to 115 cases this year

So far, 79 cases have been reported from FATA

Before every measles or polio drive, the government promises us regularisation and other rights, said Feroz.

Experts give contradicting statements about number of cases by year end; some claim 200 by November.

Tops a list of 10 high risk countries with 108 fresh cases, according to GPEI

Health director told that during the upcoming three-day polio drive, 171,914 children will be administered polio drops

Govt says security is focused on the independence day celebrations, can't spare forces for polio drive.

National polio outbreak in 2014 is almost certainly exacerbated by massive movement of IDPs from Operation Zarb-e-Azb

Four more children diagnosed with the debilitating virus.

With these two cases, the number of polio cases in Pakistan has reached 104 in 2014.