Summary Four polio cases have been surfaced in Qutta in the ongoing year.
QUETTA (Dunya News) – Anti-polio drive in Quetta was deferred today (Friday) as the police refused to provide security to polio workers.
According to details, the police while reasoning the lack of resources rejected the availability of security to the polio teams after which the drive was halted.
Security of polio teams was made compulsory after last year attack in which three polio workers including two women were killed.
Four polio cases have been surfaced in the ongoing year.
It is pertinent to mention here that 3500 police officials are deployed in the metropolis among which 2000 are rendering their services for VIP security.
Health teams in Pakistan have been attacked repeatedly since the Taliban denounced vaccines as a Western plot to sterilize Muslims and imposed bans on inoculation in June 2012.
There is evidence in tests conducted on sewage samples in some of the country s major cities that the polio virus is starting to spread beyond these isolated pockets and could soon spark fresh polio outbreaks in more densely populated areas.
The virus has been cornered to just a handful of areas in Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, the three countries where polio is endemic. Global cases have dropped by more than 99.9 percent in less than three decades, from 350,000 in 1985 to just 223 last year, according to the GPEI.
The World Health Organization says as long as any child remains infected, children everywhere are at risk.
