Polio cases in Pakistan
Islamabad: Pakistan continues to fight the disease that India has already controlled. This disease is polio. After new cases of polio were reported in Pakistan, the Sharif government on Monday started a new nationwide vaccination drive to save 4.5 million children of the country from falling victim to polio. Vaccination campaigns are carried out regularly in Pakistan, but terrorist attacks against health workers and the police personnel who provide them security continue to occur. Pakistan is one of the few countries where polio has not yet been eradicated.
Vaccination will be done door to door
Ayesha Raza Farooq, advisor to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, said that due to rising polio cases, the vaccination drive was started for the third time this year and will continue till Sunday. He said in a statement that this time we are carrying out a more vigorous campaign to fight polio. Farooq said children below five years of age will be vaccinated door-to-door and given vitamin A supplements to boost their immunity.
Most cases found here.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif recently met health workers and asked them to go door-to-door to administer the polio vaccine so that no child is left out. Farooq said that 41 cases of polio have been recorded in 71 districts of Pakistan so far this year. Most of these cases have been reported from southwestern Balochistan and southern Sindh province. Following this, cases have been reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and East Punjab province.
Polio vaccination in Pakistan
this is the situation
Now let us tell you what is happening in the name of polio in Pakistan. A few months ago, shots were fired at a team that had gone to administer anti-polio drugs in Bajaur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. One officer had died in this. There are many groups in Pakistan that remain enemies of the anti-polio campaign. This is the reason why polio has not yet been eradicated in Pakistan. There are many people in Pakistan who associate polio medicine with Islam and oppose giving anti-polio medicine to children.
opposition to fundamentalists
Fundamentalists in Pakistan believe that polio drops render a person impotent. He says this is a huge conspiracy to reduce the population of Muslims. In the last 12 years, 109 people have lost their lives in the campaign against polio. Many people have been kidnapped. In Pakistan, 284 people associated with the anti-polio campaign have died, including 166 police officers and 87 health workers. (AP)
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