Crippled: New polio case surfaces in Badin
It is the third case in Sindh outside Karachi
KARACHI:
A new polio case surfaced in Badin on Tuesday, taking the total number of cases in Sindh to 24 this year. The anti-polio campaigners are worried about the virus spreading in different parts of the province.
Eight-month-old Mohammad Khan, son of Haji Mohammad Ayoub, resident of village Haji Jan Muhammad Laghari, Union Council Ghulam Shah Laghari near Matli taluka was diagnosed with polio virus.
It is the third case in Sindh outside its provincial capital, following the earlier two cases in Sanghar and Dadu. The health officials believe that it is all because of travelling to affected areas where the virus exists.
“Our teams will take the history of the affected child, as to where the family has travelled in last eight months,” an official of the health department commented on the recent case, saying the history of visiting guests to Laghari family will also help find out where the boy got the virus.
The health officials blamed this case on the teams which visit families. “We’ll check whether the teams have actually visited the house” the official justified on the question of why the vaccine didn’t work.
Another official informed The Express Tribune that the health department has kept its entire focus on Karachi. “It could be the major reason behind the new case from Badin.” The officials who seemed confused was not sure why the doses have not worked, leaving the child paralyzed from the right side.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 12th, 2014.
A new polio case surfaced in Badin on Tuesday, taking the total number of cases in Sindh to 24 this year. The anti-polio campaigners are worried about the virus spreading in different parts of the province.
Eight-month-old Mohammad Khan, son of Haji Mohammad Ayoub, resident of village Haji Jan Muhammad Laghari, Union Council Ghulam Shah Laghari near Matli taluka was diagnosed with polio virus.
It is the third case in Sindh outside its provincial capital, following the earlier two cases in Sanghar and Dadu. The health officials believe that it is all because of travelling to affected areas where the virus exists.
“Our teams will take the history of the affected child, as to where the family has travelled in last eight months,” an official of the health department commented on the recent case, saying the history of visiting guests to Laghari family will also help find out where the boy got the virus.
The health officials blamed this case on the teams which visit families. “We’ll check whether the teams have actually visited the house” the official justified on the question of why the vaccine didn’t work.
Another official informed The Express Tribune that the health department has kept its entire focus on Karachi. “It could be the major reason behind the new case from Badin.” The officials who seemed confused was not sure why the doses have not worked, leaving the child paralyzed from the right side.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 12th, 2014.