Pakistan reports this year’s sixth polio case
The National Emergency Operations Centre for Polio Eradication (NEOC) on Monday said Pakistan had reported its sixth polio case in the ongoing year. The fresh case was reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber district, according to a NEOC statement. The affected child was a seven-year-old boy from Union Council Ghundi-A in Khyber’s Jamrud tehsil, the statement […]
Pakistan has reported its sixth polio case this year, according to the National Emergency Operations Centre for Polio Eradication (NEOC). The case was reported from Khyber district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and the affected child is a seven-year-old boy from Union Council Ghundi-A in Khyber's Jamrud tehsil.
The Pakistan Polio Eradication Initiative has launched a comprehensive case investigation and plans to implement additional measures to protect children, including a vaccination campaign to administer oral and injectable vaccines to children of older age. According to Dawn, five of Pakistan's six polio cases this year have been reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with four of those cases from the Bannu division.
The latest case was reported less than a week after the fifth case surfaced on September 29. A weeklong sub-national polio campaign concluded on September 27, during which more than 28.2 million children were vaccinated. However, severe security challenges threaten eradication efforts in the northwest, and the Bannu district remains a critical vulnerability, as reported by Dawn.
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