Pakistan is the second country in the world that has failed to eliminate polio virus
KARACHI: A polio case has been reported from Balochistan’s Dukki district, and with that, three polio cases have been reported this year only and that too from the some region. Also, as per the findings of the same news report two polio cases were reported in 2017 from Pakistan. However, this year an increase has already been observed in the cases reported.
Needless to mention, after Afghanistan, Pakistan is the second country in the world that has failed to eliminate polio virus, despite the fact that the country stands far ahead of Afghanistan in terms of development and available resources. Hence, it is not hard to ascertain that failure certainly lies in the inefficient running of campaigns and polio drives that have still possibly not covered the areas where cases have been reported from.
With the failure to eradicate polio, Pakistan has been placed with Afghanistan among the only two countries of the world still grappling with a virus the world has tackled successfully years ago.
Hamza Yasir
Published in The Express Tribune, June 8th, 2018.
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