August 29, 2008	Friday	Sha'aban 26, 1429

JACOBABAD, Aug 28: An anti-polio vaccination team detected a suspected polio patient in Dil Murad village of Thull taluka on Thursday when the team members were administering drops to children during a house-to-house drive.

Talking to Dawn on phone, in-charge of the district’s polio campaign, Dr Hafizullah Sarki, said that he suspected the seven-month-old Imran, son of Munir Ahmed Kanrani, had polio because his left leg was paralysed. Samples of his stool had been sent to Islamabad for carrying out tests to confirm if the child had the disease, he said.

Dr Santosh, a member of the team, said that the child’s father told them that his son had been administered drops more than once during previous campaigns.

About the father’s claim, the in-charge of the campaign and team members could not come up with any answer and expressed their ignorance of the reasons of polio-re-emergence despite vaccination.