Pakistan reports this year’s 19th polio case

Islamabad, Sep 16 (IANS) The quantity of polio cases identified in Pakistan this year has expanded to 19 following a six-month-old kid in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) South Waziristan region was deadened by the infection, the Wellbeing Service reported on Friday.

As indicated by the Service, the kid had a beginning of the loss of motion on August 22 as affirmed by the Pakistan Public Polio Research facility at the Public Establishment of Wellbeing, reports Xinhua news organization.

This was the main case from South Waziristan this year.

Every one of the 19 cases were identified in KP – – two patients from Lakki Marwat, 16 from North Waziristan and one from South Waziristan region.

Controlling the episode in KP stays the focal point of the Pakistan Polio Program, the Service said.

Pakistan reports this year’s 19th polio case

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“The philanthropic emergency directly following floods presents graver difficulties to polio destruction endeavors as we wrestle with the removal of millions of individuals.

“This mass dislodging will prompt the spread of wild poliovirus making it much more essential to immunize youngsters against polio,” Wellbeing Pastor Abdul Qadir Patel was cited as saying.