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Punjab probes its first polio case of 2015
Saturday, October 10, 2015 - Lahore?Following the lab confirmation of Punjab?s first polio case of 2015, a team of experts led by Punjab?s Director Expanded Program on Immunization Dr. Munir Ahmed visited the Lehr Sultan Pura Union Council in Choa Saidan Shah, Chakwal. The team comprises experts from WHO, UNICEF and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The team visited the area and found that the child, named Farhan, age 71 months, had received more than 10 dozes of immunization and was on his way to recovery...
Crippling virus: Second polio case surfaces in Karachi
By Press Release
Published: November 21, 2015
KARACHI:
A 34-month-old boy, Shahab, son of Arsalan, from union council 2 in Keamari, is the second polio case in Karachi this year...
...This is the second case from Karachi this year with the first being reported from Gulberg union council 8 in October. This takes the total cases of polio in Pakistan to 41, with six from the province of Sindh. These are two from Karachi, two from Dadu, one from Sukkur and one from Qambar...
Assailants gun down senior health official in NW Pakistan
Mon Nov 30, 2015 3:8PM
HomeAsia-PacificPakistan
A senior Pakistani health official has been killed when armed assailants opened fire on his vehicle in the country?s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa near the border with Afghanistan.
Local Pakistani police officials said that doctor Yaqub Khan, head of the Expanded Program of Immunization in Swabi district of the troubled province, came under attack on Monday when he was driving.
He was killed on the spot while the driver suffered injuries in the deadly assault in the district, located about 115 kilometers (71 miles) northwest of the capital, Islamabad...
Polio crisis worsens as two new cases detected
Two children diagnosed with disease in Baldia Town, a couple of days after two other cases were confirmed
M. Waqar Bhatti - Thursday, December 03, 2015 - From Print Edition
Karachi
Months of anti-polio efforts in Karachi seem to have been in vain in a matter of just 72 hours with the confirmation of two cases on Wednesday in Baldia Town, a couple of days after two other children were diagnosed with the disease in Gadap Town.
The two new cases have taken the number reported in the city this year to six, 11 in Sindh, and 47 in the entire country...
Pakistan records 84% reduction in polio cases: report
By Web Desk
Published: December 4, 2015
A recent healthcare research report has revealed that the number of polio cases in Pakistan has decline sharply during a nine-month period of the current year as compared with 2014.
The research points out that while immunisation gaps exist in the country, there was a reduction of around 84% in the total number of polio cases reported during the given period, according to healthcare publication website Healio...
Polio case reported in Khyber Agency, tally reaches 48
National
3 hours ago BY Agencies
A two-year-old boy has been diagnosed with the crippling polio virus in Khyber Agency?s Landi Kotal area on Wednesday, bringing the total number of such cases in the country this year to 48, according to sources in the Prime Minister?s Polio Monitoring Cell...
Pakistan records drastic drop in polio cases
By Sehrish Wasif
Published: January 5, 2016
ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan witnessed a major turnaround in the prevalence of polio last year as compared to 2014, which was the worst year in more than a decade for the country.
There was a drastic reduction in the number of reported polio cases in 2015. The polio cases dropped from the 306 recorded in 2014 to 51 in 2015. This is the lowest-ever count recorded since 2009, according to official data...
The Express Tribune > Pakistan
Latest confirmation: Polio count for 2015 reaches 52
By Kashif Zafar / Mohammad Zafar
Published: January 11, 2016
BAHAWALPUR/QUETTA:
The sample of a four-year-old boy from Rahimyar Khan in Punjab has tested positive for poliovirus, taking the count of polio cases of 2015 to 52. This is reportedly the first case in the district in the past four years.
District health authorities said Zar Gul Khan contracted the crippling disease on December 2, 2015...
