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Latest polio drive: 31,452 children at risk as parents turn vaccinators away...
PESHAWAR: At least 12,224 parents refused to have their children vaccinated against polio during the recent campaign, a report by Peshawar’s health department revealed, Express News reported Thursday....
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Security threats: WHO suspends operations in Balochistan
QUETTA: The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Thursday suspension of its operations in Balochistan owing to security threats to health workers in the aftermath of an attack on a polio team...
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Two polio workers beaten up in Lahore
LAHORE: Two health workers were beaten up in Lahore while carrying out polio vaccination campaign on Thursday, Express News reported. Identified as Tehseen and Sunny, the workers were tortured when...
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Polio kills
The cold-blooded murder of another group of polio vaccinators in a Quetta suburb on November 26 is a chilling reminder of just how high is the mountain that Pakistan has to climb if it is to eradicate...
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Time to wake up on polio
JUBAIL, SAUDI ARABIA: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has denied that it has suspended the polio vaccination programme in the country and is instead reviewing the extent of security threats to its...
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Buying our kids future cheap
Numbers have no sanctity anymore. As we approach the umpteenth ‘final round’ of the Container Run, figures of billions and trillions are and will be thrown around wildly. According to Mr Imran Khan,...
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The war against polio
LAHORE: Ultimately, only children are going to suffer as a result of targeting polio vaccinators in Pakistan. The most recent tragedy happened in Quetta and this is a city where 14 cases of polio have...
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Two new polio cases surface in FATA
PESHAWAR: Two new polio cases were reported from Khyber Agency of Fata on Monday, raising the total number of cases reported from across the country to 270. According to NIH sources, presence of Polio...
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Humans, not statistics
Poverty takes away identity. Few would immediately recognise the names Hameeda, Sania, Hamida and Ijaz. There was no international solidarity campaign for them, no twitter hashtags to increase...
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Failure to eradicate polio
KARACHI: Polio vaccination campaigns in Pakistan have been plagued by continuous setbacks. Pakistan has been the major supplier of confirmed polio cases over the past couple of years. The government...
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National polio tally climbs to 266 as four new cases emerge
LAHORE: Four new cases of polio emerged in Pakistan on Friday, taking this year’s tally to 266, Express News reported. Of the four new cases, two pertained to Federally Administered Tribal Areas, one...
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Crippling disease: Another polio case confirmed in Balochistan
QUETTA: Another case of poliovirus was detected in an 18-month-old boy in Chaman, a border town which shares borders with Afgahnistan, in Qila Abdullah district, raising the total number of cases in...
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Jirga on polio: Authorities move to counter public ‘misunderstandings’
RAWALPINDI: The district health department held a jirga on Friday to raise public awareness, especially among the Pashto speaking population of the district, of the importance of polio vaccination for...
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Polio: Six new cases reported across the country
ISLAMABAD / PESHAWAR: As the government prepares to launch its last nationwide anti-polio drive for 2014, six new cases of polio surfaced in three different areas of the country on Saturday, taking...
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Militants kill two policemen in Buner
BUNER: Two policemen were killed by unknown militants in the Dokada area of Buner district after they were abducted on their way to perform security duties in connection with the polio vaccination...
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Polio worker shot dead in Faisalabad
FAISALABAD: A polio worker was killed in Faisalabad on Tuesday when unidentified armed men opened fire at a polio vaccination team just a day after Taliban insurgents claimed the killing of two...
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Polio vaccinator shot dead in Faisalabad
FAISALABAD: Gunmen shot dead a polio vaccinator in a residential neighbourhood of Faisalabad on Tuesday. According to officials, two gunmen riding on a motorcycle opened fire on Sarfraz Ahmad,...
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Polio: The case of an explosive outbreak
PESHAWAR: As the world struggled to deal with a massive Ebola outbreak in 2014, the fight closer to home was with the crippling poliovirus which had by December 31 infected 295 children in Pakistan —...
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First polio case of 2015 emerges in Balochistan
QUETTA: The year 2015 started with the emergence of a new polio case in Balochistan when a 26-month-old infant was detected with the crippling virus in Brab Chah area of Chagai district on Thursday. A...
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Balochistan count: 26-month-old boy diagnosed with polio
QUETTA: The year 2015 got off to an inauspicious start in Balochistan with officials identifying another poliovirus sufferer in Chagai district on Thursday — the first day of the New Year. According...
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