The number of polio cases in the country reached 143 after five new polio cases surfaced across the country in a single day.
One of the new cases is an infant in a suburb of Quetta, making it first polio case in Quetta in 2014 and the second in Balochistan.
An official of the WHO confirmed that one-year-old Gul Muhammed, a resident of Eastern Bypass area, has contracted the virus, adding that he had been administered polio drops during the last seven campaigns in the area.
“It is a wild type-1 polio case. He received three POV doses through routine vaccination and more than seven doses through SIAs,” he said.
According to the K-P health department and the National Institute of Health in Islamabad, the first new polio victim in the tribal areas is the 24-month-old son of Jan Said, a resident of Khyber Agency’s Bara tehsil. The second child is 16-month-old Hamid, son of Mirtajudin Khan, a resident of North Waziristan Agency’s Mirali tehsil.
The two cases from K-P are 15-month-old Marwan from Bannu and 12-month-old Shukatullah from Tank. The disease has attacked at least 143 children in Pakistan during this year.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 11th, 2014.
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@Raj - USA: Apart from cold chain supply management that Ali S has referred to, there is a more basic issue that even India had faced. Due to water related diseases and related diarrhoea being common, often the drops are not retained in the body long enough to have an impact.
@Raj - USA:
It's called cold chain supply management - the vaccines lose their potency if not stored at ideal temperature. But since WHO distributes OPV virtually free of cost to the govt (the only costs are the vaccinators' paltry compensation, transport and campaigning), they just don't care about it - height of incompetence and apathy.
Keep it up...
Something is not correct. There has been few cases where parents have claimed to have give polio drops but still the child has contracted the virus. Pakistan's authorities should take it seriously and find out the cause. Allowing it to continue will be damaging for Pakistan and travelers from Pakistan will face difficulties entering foreign countries even if they have government issued vaccination certificates.