Five more polio cases were reported from across the country late Wednesday, pushing the total number of children infected by the crippling virus this year to 243.
According to the health department, two cases were confirmed from Khyber Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, while one each was confirmed from Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).
Arif, 12-month-old son of Khana Jan, is infected with the poliovirus. He belongs to Jamrud, Khyber Agency. The second latest case from the agency is six-month-old Abdur Rehman from Bara.
In Noorman Khel in Mardan, eight-month-old Marwa has also been diagnosed with polio. With her f, K-P now has 49 cases.
Among the infected children is eight-month-old Yasir, a resident of Lath Basti in Bin Qasim Town, Karachi. The child has only received four doses of the oral polio vaccine.
Balochistan now has 11 reported polio cases, with Rubina, an 18-month-old from Qilla Abdullah, the latest to fall victim to the crippling disease.
Earlier in the day, while speaking about Sindh’s polio campaign, Minister of State for National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination Saira Afzal Tarar said at a meeting in Karachi that in some districts of Sindh only 29% of the campaign was completed while in others only 4% was completed.
A shorter version of this article was published in The Express Tribune on November 13th, 2014.
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