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Another 4 polio cases confirmed

A Reporter Published October 30, 2014

ISLAMABAD: With the confirmation of four more polio cases by the Polio Virology Laboratory at the National Institute of Health on Wednesday, the figure climbed to 231.

An official of the Ministry of National Health Services said that two cases each had been reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

“Two cases have been reported from Peshawar and two from Khyber Agency,” he said.

Published in Dawn, October 30th , 2014

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ashfaq ahmad

Oct 30, 2014 09:34am

All the efforts of KPK government will go in vein, till FATA childrens are not vaccinated. if children in FATA will not vaccinated, there will be no improvement in KPK because people of FATA traveling on daily basis to peshawar.

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Rajendra

Oct 30, 2014 10:43am

on the other hand India is declared POLIO free country ...

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saad

Oct 30, 2014 10:54am

what KPK and Federal Govt is doing???

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jitendra

Oct 30, 2014 11:02am

RAW must be behind this case too....

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Ahmed

Oct 30, 2014 11:08am

@jitendra No it must be the Kashmir issue. Once that is solved, the polio problem will disappear automatically, LOLZ

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Kaka

Oct 30, 2014 11:12am

@Jitendra, yes it may be RAW as well but surely CIA behind this scenario

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Lahore wala

Oct 30, 2014 11:14am

Nawaz need to be held accountable. Nawaz need to pay these polio victims out of his pocket. This is due to his negligence. A case should be filed against him. Reimbursement for crippled polio children. A life stolen from them by Nawaz.

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Dilip Thorat

Oct 30, 2014 11:21am

LOC casualties 20. Polio Casualties 231 Pak Terrorism Casualties not interested?

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Ravi Dallas TX

Oct 30, 2014 12:06pm

This is shame dear friends. Plase prioriterize and fix his issue asap. otherwise UN nations will laugh at you when you raise rights issue with them.

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Masoud

Oct 30, 2014 12:46pm

In a way Dr. Afridi is also responsible for this rise. His fake polio campaign further cemented the notion of those peoples who were 50% reluctant to administer polio medicine to their babies due to ill founded theories.

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AshwinMS

Nov 01, 2014 09:04am

@Rajendra We are not free of polio until our neighbours are free.Thanks to Pakistan Both Afghanistan and India are under polio threat.

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