Pakistan has announced the third occurrence of the poliovirus in 2023, which is alarming and calls into question the nation’s efforts to eradicate this debilitating illness.
The most recent case was discovered in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Bannu district, the same area where the first two instances were discovered.
An unlucky one-and-a-half-year-old girl who lives in the Ghoda Baka Khel Union Council of the Bannu region is the most recent tragedy.
Another case of polio has been recorded in Pakistan for 2023
She was tragically left paralyzed as a result of the infection, underscoring the terrible effects of the illness. With the addition of this case, Pakistan has had three children infected with polio this year, all from the Bannu district.
Additionally, the existence of the virus in the environment of the Bannu district was confirmed by the discovery of poliovirus in a sample of ambient material.
According to federal authorities, 34 of these environmental samples have so far tested positively for poliovirus in different regions of Pakistan.
Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar has started a five-day anti-polio vaccination campaign to stop the spread of the disease.
In the entire nation, the program hopes to reach almost 44 million children.
At the PM House, Prime Minister Kakar personally launched the project by giving youngsters oral doses of vitamin A and the anti-polio vaccine.
Dr. Nadeem Jan, the interim health minister, and other top officials witnessed this effort being made.
Prime Minister Kakar praised the 350,000 polio workers who will be actively taking part in the immunization program during the launch. Because of their unrelenting dedication to making the anti-polio effort a success, he referred to them as the nation’s heroes. The ongoing fight against polio in Pakistan has received crucial assistance from international allies, as Prime Minister Kakar recently noted.
