Four more new cases of polio have been reported in the country, after which the number of children affected by the disease has reached 32 this year.
According to Dawn News, sources said that the National Reference Lab of the National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed 4 polio cases and said that 3 polio cases have been reported from Sindh and one from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
It was further said that 2 cases have been reported from Union Council Thal 2 of Jacobabad, where the virus has been confirmed in a 32-month-old girl and a one-and-a-half-year-old boy, in addition to this, the third case from the province has been reported from UC Ibrahim Haidari of Malir. , where a 6-year-old child was infected with the virus.
Sources said that UC Ibrahim Haidari’s polio-affected child has died.
It further said that the fourth case was reported from the Dera Ismail district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where polio was confirmed in a 22-month-old child at UC Morga.
Sources said that the process of genetic diagnosis of reported cases of polio is going on.
It should be noted that on October 4, a case of wild poliovirus type 1 (WP1) was reported in a little girl in Zhob district.
After which the total number of poliovirus cases in Balochistan this year has increased to 16 and the number of infected cases across the country has increased to 28.
Similarly, 2 more cases of poliovirus were reported in Sindh on October 1. An official of the Regional Reference Laboratory of Polio Control in the National Institute of Health said that the latest cases were confirmed in the districts of Karachi East and Sajawal.
Ayesha Raza Farooq, the Prime Minister’s Focal Person for Polio Prevention, said that it is heartbreaking that Pakistani children are still at risk of a disease that can be easily prevented with the help of the available polio vaccine.
He had told that there is no cure for polio, if a child falls victim to it, the child becomes paralyzed for life.
Repeated polio vaccination can protect children from the paralytic effects of this dreaded disease.
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