Four new poliovirus cases  detected in K-P, Balochistan
Four new poliovirus cases detected in K-P, Balochistan
Abid Raza Kazmi
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QUETTA/ISLAMABAD:  National Emergency Operations Centre for Polio Eradication on Monday confirmed that four polio cases based on parental refusals have been reported from Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).

QUETTA/ISLAMABAD:  National Emergency Operations Centre for Polio Eradication on Monday confirmed that four polio cases based on parental refusals have been reported from Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).

According to an official National Emergency Operations Centre for Polio Eradication, two new cases of crippling poliovirus were confirmed in killa Abdullah and Jaffarabad districts of Balochistan on Monday.

According to the Health Department Sources Balochistan’s 2019 two polio cases reported in Jaffarabad and Killa Abdullah districts.

According to the health Department sources the child is identified as Imtiaz  eight  months old resident of Gandakha area of Jaffarabad district. Other child identified as nine months old Hibatullah resident of Janu Kahol district of Killa Abdullah.

According to the sources the family of Killa Abdullah hides the child during the polio campgain and another child from jaffarabad the family was refusal.

Two polio cases reported from Balochistan in 2019 overall in Pakistan 41 polio cases reported.

Meanwhile two cases reported in District Bannu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa bringing the total number of cases in the country to 41, including a total of 33 polio cases reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, three cases from Punjab, three cases from Sindh and two cases from Balochistan.

He said that the victims were thirty months old boy and 12 months old girl from district Bannu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and eight months old boy from district Jaffarabad and nine months old boy from District Killa Abdullah in Balochistan. In all four fresh reported polio cases, parental refusal is found to be common among the polio victims, he added.

He said that the identification of new cases is yet another reminder that as long as the polio virus exists anywhere in the country, no child is safe from being infected.

“Fortunately, children who are vaccinated against polio multiple times are able to fight the virus back. The more doses of the polio vaccine a child receives, the higher the chances of escaping lifelong paralysis,” he added.

Prime Minister’s Focal Person on Polio Eradication Babar Bin Atta said “the next door-to-door polio vaccination campaign in selected districts will be in the month of July and August. He appealed to parents, religious leaders and other stakeholders to convince people to vaccinate their children, so that the virus has nowhere to go”

He said that polio is a highly infectious disease caused by polio virus mainly affecting children under the age of five and it invades the nervous system, and can cause paralysis or even death.

While there is no cure for polio, vaccination is the most effective way to protect children from this crippling disease. Each time a child under the age of five is vaccinated, their protection against the virus is increased, he added.

He said that repeated immunizations have protected millions of children from polio, allowing almost all countries in the world to become polio free.