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Despite health professionals' unwavering attempts to immunize youngsters in the face of flood-related difficulties and destruction, poliovirus paralyzed another child in Pakistan as the nation announced a new incidence of the crippling disease from Tehsil Ghulam Khan of North Waziristan.
The new case took Pakistan’s toll of poliovirus cases to 15 this year, health authorities said.
“A 17-month boy in North Waziristan has been paralysed by wild polio in the 14th case from the district this year. The child suffering from polio-induced disabilities had onset of paralysis on August 1,” an official of the National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination (NHS,R&C) said, while quoting Pakistan’s Polio Laboratory at the National Institute of Health (NIH) on Friday.
This is the 14th case from district North Waziristan this year, the health official said, adding that all of the cases in Pakistan in 2022 have been reported from southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, including 14 from North Waziristan and one from Lakki Marwat, The Newsreported.
He maintained that this last case puts the wild polio case count for the endemic countries at 16, with 15 cases from Pakistan between April and August 2022 and one case reported from Afghanistan in January 2022.
He stated that in addition to this, optimal vaccination of the high risk and mobile population/children on the move is being assured at the transit vaccination stations around the nation in order to reduce the risks connected with the poliovirus detections from the environment in July and August 2022.
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