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Polio marches onwards
Polio ended the year 2014 grimly victorious in Pakistan. Across the country there were more than 290 cases diagnosed, with at least 22 of those found in Balochistan. The first day of the new year saw...
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Crippling disease: Pakistan requests for emergency TAG meeting
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has requested the World Health Organisation (WHO) to convene a meeting of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) as soon as possible to discuss its polio eradication strategy in light...
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For high risk areas: Government to establish health camps
ISLAMABAD: The government has devised a new strategy to reverse the spike in polio cases in the country. The Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination (NHSRC) will set up 260...
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Refusals, presence of virus in sewage set alarm bells ringing
RAWALPINDI: The high number of parents refusing to get their children vaccinated against polio and presence of virus in Rawalpindi’s sewage has set off alarm bells ringing among the authorities. An...
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Drive against polio: PUC offers to play its part in immunisation
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Ulema Council — a prominent religious body in the country — has offered its network of 73,000 mosques as centres to carry out routine immunisation. Sources said that the...
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Polio: Six fresh cases take 2014 tally to record 303
ISLAMABAD / PESHAWAR: While Pakistan is already under the radar for being a ‘reservoir of poliovirus’ in the world, health officials confirmed six new polio cases on Tuesday, taking last year’s...
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Countrywide vaccination drive from Monday
ISLAMABAD: The government has finalised security arrangements for a countrywide polio vaccination drive which starts on January 19. The National Crisis Management Cell (NCMC) of the Ministry of...
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Pakistan’s crippling problem
KARACHI: Why is the polio challenge getting worse despite so many efforts being made by the government in this regard? Is vaccination enough to get rid of this plague? It seems that enough is not...
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Pillion riding barred in Karachi for three days
KARACHI: Sindh government on Monday imposed a three-day ban on pillion riding following an attack on a polio team in the city. The ban will remain in effect from Tuesday through Thursday. The decision...
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Taking it lightly: CDA complains of inadequate security for polio teams
ISLAMABAD: The state’s deficiency to provide security to polio workers can be gauged from the fact the capital administration managed to provide 280 policemen to escort 549 health teams in urban...
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The battle against polio
The eradication of polio has become a literal as well as a metaphorical battleground. In most of the country, the vaccination campaigns go ahead as a matter of routine and have done for many years,...
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No new polio cases in Syria reported for a year: WHO
BEIRUT: Despite vast areas of Syria not under government control, and some areas being bombed by the US, the past year saw no reported polio case in the war-torn country, the World Health Organization...
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Polio: Four-day drive concludes in K-P
PESHAWAR: A four-day drive to administer oral polio vaccines to children up to five years of age will draw to a close across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday (today). The campaign was launched in 24...
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Polio drive: Three sent to jail for negligence
KOHAT: Kohat DC Riaz Mehsud sent the father of a polio victim to jail along with two health department employees. Officials said Muhammad’s father, Maulana Yusuf, was put behind bars at DI Khan...
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Public health: ‘Prevalence of polio perturbs international community’
LAHORE: World Health Organisation (WHO) Pakistan Director Michel Thierin said on Friday that more efforts were required to rid the nation of polio virus. He was leading a WHO delegation that had...
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Sehat ka Ittehad bridges gap between Centre, K-P
KARACHI: In a letter issued on Friday, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P) Senior Minister for Health, Shahram Tarakai, confirmed the details of Sehat ka Ittehad, a vaccination campaign jointly devised by the...
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Policeman guarding polio workers shot dead in Karachi
KARACHI: Gunmen on Monday killed a policeman guarding a polio vaccination team in Karachi, police officials said, the latest blow to efforts to stamp out the crippling virus in Pakistan. The attackers...
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Combating polio: Ill-planning, security lapses hamper drives
ISLAMABAD: The biggest challenge in the country’s fight to eradicate polio is the burdensome nature of the back-to-back campaigns and lack of adequate security measures for health workers. Official...
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Primary schoolteachers refuse to participate in polio drive
MINGORA: Primary schoolteachers in Swat have refused to participate in the polio vaccination drive in the district and carry arms to school for students’ safety. Members of the All Primary Teachers...
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Nationwide drive: Around 400,000 children miss polio vaccination: report
ISLAMABAD: Some 400,000 children missed the vaccination initiative mounted as part of this year’s first nationwide anti-polio drive, according to documents available with The Express Tribune. Around...
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