Polio victim dies

Published February 19, 2017

BADIN: A six-year-old boy, Imran Jat, who was paralysed by the polio virus, died late on Friday evening at his home in Qasim Jat village of Shaheed Fazil Rahu (previously Golarchi) town of Badin district.

The boy had been under treatment at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre in Karachi for some time and was discharged a few weeks ago.

Published in Dawn February 19th, 2017

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