18-month-old resident of Gadap Town has never been immunised. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI: A new polio case surfaced in Karachi’s Gadap Town, taking this year’s tally for the city to five, Express News reported on Monday.
According to initial details, the 18-month-old has never been immunised.
Gadap Town is one of those areas where the refusal rate for polio vaccination is very high.
Interestingly, government officials had recently claimed the area was becoming polio-free.
To date 60 polio cases have been reported in Pakistan. This includes 46 cases from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, nine from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and five from Sindh.
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"With new case, Karachi's polio tally rises to 5"" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Where is the genuis whoo was proclaiming that 90 % of Pakistan is polio free?
All hail to brilliant administration , First we build No Go areas and now worried about the Polio cases . keep in mind we are combating with uneducated, Extremely emotional , Tribal Orthodoxies , its a War between state of minds.
This is not a loss to individual.. this is a big loss for Pakistan as the youth is becoming paralysed at all levels, physically or mentally. I would not blame government. People need to realise their responsibility towards nation.. if not nation then at least to their families. Utter disappointment on the role our so called "MEDIA" plays in informing people on the role this virus could play if they don't go for immunisation. They should seek advice from india and other countries on how to make moral-based advertisements.