Di khan/Islamabad:
A subnational anti-political campaign began in southern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) with a gloomy note as unknown criminals on Monday they kidnapped three senior officials of the Organization of the World Health Organization (WHO) who monitor the campaign. Two more cases of polio were also confirmed in the KP.
According to a press release issued by the National Health Institutes (NIH), the two new cases arose in the districts of Waziristan del Norte and Lakki Marwat.
In Mir Ali Tehsil of Waziristan del Norte, a 19 -month -old baby infected with paralyzing disease was found. The other case was confirmed in an 11 -month -old baby at the Suleman Khel Tehsil in Lakki Marwat.
These new cases took the total number of cases reported in the KP from the beginning of the year to 18, the highest in any province in the country. The national account is now in 26, with six cases of Sindh, 18 of the KP and one of Punjab and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Detailing the results of the environmental wastewater samples of August with respect to polyomyelitis, collected from 87 districts throughout the country, the NIH said: “Of the 126 proven environmental samples, 75 were found negative without detected poliovirus, while 51 samples gave positive.”
According to the NIH, of a total of 23 proven samples for polychistan polyomyelitis, only one was positive, while in the KP, 34 proven samples, it was found that 10 were positive.
Punjab registered 14 polio-positive samples, 31 proven; The poliovirus was found in 24 of the 29 proven samples in Sindh, 12 of which were in Karachi. One sample was positive for the virus in GB and Islamabad.
“Balochistan reported a marked reduction, with only a positive environmental site in July and August, below January 19,” said the press release.
“In the KP, the positive environmental sites fell from 13 in April to 10 in August,” he said.
He said that “seven of the 10 positive sites were in the south of the province, while all Peshawar samples gave negative for the virus. In Islamabad, the number of positive environmental sites has decreased from three to one in July to one in August.”
The NIH expressed concern about “continuous detection of cases, particularly in southern KP,” stating that “children living in areas difficult to achieve and those in communities with low vaccine acceptance are still at risk.”
Meanwhile, three elders who monitored the polio campaign in the KP tanks district were kidnapped by unidentified armed men.
Tanks District Police officer (DPO) Shabir Hussain told Express PAkGazette that the kidnapped officers were identified as the district surveillance officer, Dr. Ihsan, UCCSO Hikmatullah and Ucpo Abdullah.
“The three officials were kidnapped from the Umar Khail area of the Council of the Mulla Zai Union in the Tanques District. The Police have launched efforts to recover the kidnapped,” he added.
