The development comes at a time when official documents claim the option to inoculate children still living in war-torn North Waziristan is on the cards and a UAE government and Pakistan Army drive is said to have covered large swathes of the displaced population.
Of the new cases, eight are from Fata, taking the area’s count to 101— a jump into triple digits overnight. Two of the cases were reported from Bannu, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Four of the infected children hail from one tehsil in Khyber Agency — Bara. Eight-month-old Awais, 18-month-old Sabir, 18-month-old Hafsa and 12-month-old Muhammadullah are all from Aka Khel in Bara. According to official reports, none of the children had received a single dose of the oral polio vaccine (OPV).
Two-year-old Sadia from Razmak in North Waziristan has also been diagnosed with the crippling virus as was six-month-old Safia from Miranshah. Both had not been inoculated against the poliovirus.
South Waziristan which only reported two cases in 2013 now has 12. Saeeda, 3, and 18-month-old Fawad are from Wana and Ladha tehsils respectively.
While Saeeda has not received a single dose of the vaccine, Fawad had received one dose through a supplementary immunisation activity.
In Bannu, 12-month-old Muntazar and 36-month-old Asma were both diagnosed with poliovirus and neither had received a single dose of the OPV. Of the 137 cases, 101 are in Fata, 23 in K-P, 11 in Sindh, one in Punjab and Balochistan each.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 6th, 2014.
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Well, the Indian space-craft will be landing sometime this month on Mars. However I think Pakistan has beaten India in setting a world record. Im sure you people must be proud of this feat... 10 cases in a month is quite a record. Even Somalia cannot dream of achieving such a record. Congratulations !
This is some kind of world record, isnt it?
1) Very, very sad to note that Polio Cases are still happening in Pakistan. :( 2) I don't know who is responsible for this heinous crime against Pakistan Children, by failing to Immunize them, at Birth! 3) It's hightime, that Pakistan's People, Governmental Institutions as well as the Society wake up to the urgency on this and start to attempt to cure the already infected kids as well as implementing 100% immunization of all the New Born at their Birth itself.
A shinning model of the Naya Pakistan which IK and his PTI want to create.
Please dont start up to bash PTI on every single thing, they have done outstanding job in KPK by Sehat ka insaf, please read facts and than write.
However, FATA which comes under Fedral Govt is the most effected area as more than 70%Cases were found in this Territory and Govt. has done nothing, absolutely nothing so far
Go Nawaz GoFederal govt is responsible and it should resign!!! #nayapakistan
Blame it to india ,they released the water and diseases must have flown from india as part of their conspiracy.
In past year 23 kids got polio in KPK. What happened to Sehat ka insaaf? To go to D chowk and accuse someone else of poor governance is o e thing. To provide better governance oneself is a very different thing.