Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
Pakistan: Year?s first polio cases reported in Pakistan, Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan have reported the first cases of polio for the year 2016.
In Pakistan, the case has been confirmed by Polio Virology Laboratory at the National Institute of Health.
An official of the Ministry of National Health Services, who is not authorised to speak on record, said the sample collected from 34-month-old Ijaz Khan in January confirmed that the child had the onset of polio.
He is a resident of Gadap Town in Karachi and belongs to a Pakhtun family of Mohmand tribe. He had received two doses during routine immunisation and seven during different polio campaigns.
?Malnutrition was the major reason of the disease because immunity level of the child was very low,? the official said.
He said that 54 cases of polio had been reported last year. ?We are still hopeful that polio will be completely eradicated from the country this year because we are not going to miss any child during polio campaigns.?
He said the affected child in Afghanistan was 60 months old. He had received only two polio vaccines.
See also : Pakistan: 2016 Polio
6 February, 2016 - 21:20
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan have reported the first cases of polio for the year 2016.
In Pakistan, the case has been confirmed by Polio Virology Laboratory at the National Institute of Health.
An official of the Ministry of National Health Services, who is not authorised to speak on record, said the sample collected from 34-month-old Ijaz Khan in January confirmed that the child had the onset of polio.
He is a resident of Gadap Town in Karachi and belongs to a Pakhtun family of Mohmand tribe. He had received two doses during routine immunisation and seven during different polio campaigns.
?Malnutrition was the major reason of the disease because immunity level of the child was very low,? the official said.
He said that 54 cases of polio had been reported last year. ?We are still hopeful that polio will be completely eradicated from the country this year because we are not going to miss any child during polio campaigns.?
He said the affected child in Afghanistan was 60 months old. He had received only two polio vaccines.
See also : Pakistan: 2016 Polio