ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reported the third polio case of 2025 as confirmed by the Nationwide Institutes of Well being’s (NIH) Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication.
The brand new polio case was reported from Sindh’s District Larkana and was verified by the lab. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan district reported the 12 months’s first case, the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication.
There have been 74 polio circumstances recorded in 2024, the earlier 12 months. Of them, one every got here from Punjab and Islamabad, whereas 27 got here from Balochistan, 22 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and 23 from Sindh.
In line with authorities, the primary nationwide polio marketing campaign of 2025 was efficiently concluded, with 99% of the targets achieved throughout the nation.
The marketing campaign was performed from February 3 to 9, 2025. Throughout this marketing campaign, greater than 45 million kids had been administered the polio vaccine.
Learn Extra: Dad and mom held for refusing polio vaccination in Quetta
In each marketing campaign, this system ensures that kids below 5 years obtain polio drops, to guard them from the crippling results of the polio virus.
It is very important notice right here that Quetta administration arrested 5 people who refused to permit their kids to be vaccinated towards polio.
Assistant Commissioner Maria Shamooun, accompanied by a polio workforce, visited varied areas of Sariab and 15 kids of reluctant dad and mom had been administered the polio vaccine after persuasion, in accordance with district administration.
Regardless of repeated warnings, 5 dad and mom who continued to refuse vaccination had been taken into custody.