LARKANA, April 21: While the anti-polio campaign will start here and in the Shahdadkot district from April 26, a new polio case has been reported in Shahdadkot. The stool specimen of the victim, a resident of the Millan Mugheri village near Khair Pur Joso, Shahdadkot, had been sent to the National Institute of Health for examination on March 26.

The in charge of the polio campaign in Larkana and Shahdadkot, Abdul Majid Jessar, told Dawn on Thursday that the boy’s stool had been sent to the NIH for examination because he had been suffering from acute flaccid paralysis.

On Wednesday, the district health office, Larkana, received the report confirming that the boy had polio.

Dr Jessar was surprised that the boy had developed polio although he had been administered 14 anti-polio drops, including routine doses.

Sources said that a team of doctors of the World Health Organization, comprising Dr Yahya Mustafa Neuro physician (Egypt), Dr Rahool (Philippines) and Dr Mohammad (Egypt), reached Larkana on Thursday and also visited the village of the affected boy but the victim’s family had shifted from that village.

The team members and local health officials failed to locate the boy’s family.

Meanwhile, the EDO, revenue, Khuda Bakhsh Larik, on Thursday presided over a meeting of the polio eradication committee which reviewed arrangements for the anti-polio campaign. The meeting said 418,864 children would be vaccinated against polio.

TWO KILLED: Three unidentified people shot dead two men while harvesting wheat crop near the Dodo Chandio village in the Sahdadkot district the other day. Those killed were identified as Badal Chandio and Jaffar Chandio, residents of the Mehar town. Police have picked up two suspects, Aadho Chandio and his brother, Misri