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Eradicating polio
KARACHI: Although several anti-polio campaigns have been staged in the country, the number of polio cases has recently reached an alarming figure with around 220 cases having been reported across the...
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Hurdles to vaccination: Mismanagement takes a toll on polio spread
KARACHI: Militants have long been the scourge of polio vaccination campaigns, attacking aid workers and the police who protect them as they distribute doses to children. But experts say there is...
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Seven new polio cases put Pakistan total at 227
ISLAMABAD: Seven new polio cases were reported in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) on Tuesday, taking the country’s total number of cases to 227 in 2014. The National...
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Nawaz wants provinces to redouble efforts against polio
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday wrote letters to all the chief ministers of the country, urging them to carry out steps for polio eradication. He called on provincial governments to...
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Polio, politics, polemics & personal profit
For decades, Pakistan made headlines in the global media for catch phrases such as jihad, terrorism and militancy. The latest branding opportunity for the impoverished nation has been provided by a...
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Fighting polio
KARACHI: Polio can strike at any age, leaving an individual crippled for life. It mainly affects children under the age of five. It is indeed a matter of great concern that the number of polio cases...
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7 more cases set off alarm bells
PESHAWAR / ISLAMABAD: As seven fresh polio cases surfaced in the country on Tuesday, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has asked the provincial governments to redouble their eradication efforts and work in...
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Polio eradication programme: Tarar to respond to monitoring body’s ‘harsh’...
ISLAMABAD: The federal health ministry is planning to write a letter to the head of the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) in order to register its protest over the ‘harsh’ language used in its...
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Four new polio cases sees Pakistan's tally jump to 231
PESHAWAR: For the first time in 16 years, the number of polio cases reported in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) has reached 150 as four more cases were confirmed. Late on Wednesday night,...
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Polio rampant
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has seemingly become aware of the elephant in the room and has written to provincial governments, exhorting them to redouble their efforts to eradicate polio. To say that...
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Polio eradication woes: Provinces come down hard on IMB proposal
ISLAMABAD: Provincial authorities have refused to accept the Independent Monitoring Board’s recommendations of handing over Pakistan’s polio eradication programme to the National Disaster Management...
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Four new polio cases surface in K-P, FATA
PESHAWAR: Four more polio cases were confirmed in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (Fata) on Wednesday, pushing the number of cases reported in the country this...
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Need of the hour: Provinces should join hands to fight polio
LAHORE: Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Khwaja Salman Rafique said on Friday the government had been doing its best to eradicate polio. He was talking to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Country...
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4 polio cases confirmed in Balochistan, S Waziristan
PESHAWAR: Four new polio cases in Balochistan and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) were confirmed by the National Institute of Health (NIH) on Friday, pushing the total number of cases...
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Serious this time? Special police force to help special polio teams do their job
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, while expressing concern over the rising incidence of polio cases in Karachi, has decided to constitute a special police force that will accompany...
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Nawaz to chair high profile polio committee meeting on Wednesday
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will chair a Polio Steering Committee meeting on Wednesday. Chief ministers off all the provinces, CM Gilgit-Baltistan, Prime Minister Azad and Jammu Kashmir,...
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PM Nawaz to deliver a polio-free country in 6 months
ISLAMABAD: Embattled Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, accused of putting the issue of polio on the back burner because of ongoing political unrest, called on federal and provincials governments on...
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Sabotaging the campaign: Anti-polio message resurfaces, this time in Charsadda
CHARSADDA: In a bid to sabotage the polio campaign, unidentified culprits pasted a pamphlet with an anti-polio vaccine message on the wall of a mosque in District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ)...
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Crippling disease: Nawaz vows to root out polio in 6 months
ISLAMABAD: Setting an ambitious target of completely eradicating polio from Pakistan in six months, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday directed all the provinces to take the anti-polio drive...
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No deadline given for polio-free Pakistan, clarifies PM House spokesperson
ISLAMABAD: Determined to make Pakistan polio-free as soon as possible, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, however, had not set any deadline, Prime Minister House spokesperson clarified on Thursday, Express...
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