QUETTA: Another polio case has been reported in Noshki district of Balochistan raising the number of polio affected children to six during the current year.
Balochistan Health department sources informed APP on Saturday that as many as six polio cases has so far been reported, two each from Killa Abdullah, Pishin and Noshki districts during the current year.
The total number of polio affected children from the province has reached to 17 following the latest case came to surface as 12 polio cases had been reported during the last year.
Three of the total 12 polio affected children in 2010 belonged to the provincial capital, two each from Chaghi and Nasirabad, three from Killa Abdullah and one from Jaffarabad districts.
It is an alarming situation which demands of the provincial government to seriously take the matter with quarters concerned as to why more and more cases of polio affected children are reported despite incurring a huge national exchequer on anti-polio drives.
“Balochistan health department is determined for complete elimination of the polio in collaboration with its partners UNICEF, Rotary Club and WHO”, they said, adding the department has recently revisited its strategy and evolved the new one after seeking input from the partners in the initiative.
They claimed that the current three-day anti polio drive would be followed by feedback from the community in order to plug-in all loopholes in this regard.
Meanwhile, Balochistan Health Department launched the three day anti-Polio drive across the province during which over two million children below the age of five would be administered anti-polio drops.
A total of 7500 teams have been constituted to administer the vaccine among the children by visiting door to door during the drive has been launched in collaboration with UNICEF and Rotary Club.
Besides, arrangements have also been made to ensure anti polio vaccine to the children at airports, railway stations, bus stands and public parks so that no child below the age of five remain unvaccinated.