QUETTA: The new year's first polio case was reported on Thursday morning from Balochistan's Chaghi district. Sources from the Balochistan Health Department told Dawn that the crippling virus was...
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New strategy unlikely to curtail refusal against anti-polio vaccine
Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR: A new communication strategy being introduced by United Nations Children Fund to cope with refusal against oral polio vaccine is unlikely to make any breakthrough in...
Polio campaign postponed in Quetta due to security threats
Syed Ali Shah QUETTA: The Balochistan government on Monday postponed an anti-polio campaign in Quetta owing to security threats. The campaign was scheduled to be launched in the provincial capital...
Amid overstretched security, formation of polio force on the back burner
Hasan Mansoor KARACHI: Provincial authorities are waiting for the nod from the security apparatus, which is already facing new challenges in the aftermath of the Dec 16 Peshawar attack, to notify a...
Closure of KP project a blow to thalassaemia patients
Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR: The government’s decision to end thalassaemia project will bring to complete halt the efforts carried out about research and awareness regarding this hereditary childhood...
Anti-polio campaign launched
QUETTA: A four-day polio eradication campaign was launched amid tight security in Qila Abdullah and five other districts of the Nasirabad division on Monday. Twenty-one polio cases have been...
Two polio cases reported in Balochistan
QUETTA: Two more polio cases have been detected in Qila Abdullah and Nasirabad districts of Balochistan. According to sources in the health department, 19 cases of the crippling disease have been...
28th polio case confirmed in Sindh
KARACHI: Provincial health authorities on Wednesday confirmed another polio case in Sindh — a 10-month-old girl from Sanghar — bringing the tally to 28 cases this year. Officials in the expanded...
Polio drops not administered to hundreds of children in Dadu villages
DADU: Hundreds of children below five years of age have not been vaccinated against polio in many villages in the mountainous region of the district during successive anti-polio drives by the health...
311 Thar children died in 11 months: report
Hasan Mansoor KARACHI: A latest report prepared by the provincial government vis-à-vis the drought situation in Thar shows that 311 children under five years of age have died between December, 2013...
Sindh children to be administered polio drops ‘by force’
Hasan Mansoor KARACHI: The provincial government has decided to make it mandatory for every resident in Sindh, particularly those living in the 11 high-risk union councils of Karachi, to inoculate...
241 children missed polio vaccination
Waseem Ashraf Butt GUJRAT: A survey conducted by the district government reveals that 241 children could not be administered polio drops during polio campaigns in the district. The survey was...
Foot prints: Punjab vaccinators in the cross hairs
ON an ordinary day, Mohammad Sarfaraz could have been typically found either at the local mosque or at the Al Rehmania High School teaching his class. But not anymore. Instead, on a mournful...
Six more polio cases confirmed
ISLAMABAD: Six new cases were reported by the Polio Virology Laboratory at the National Institute of Health on Saturday. Four polio cases were reported from Fata and one each from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
Islamabad tests negative as polio found in eight cities
Ikram Junaidi ISLAMABAD: The capital and the industrial town of Faisalabad were the only two cities that emerged polio-free from the latest round of testing. Although Peshawar was declared polio-free...
Lady health workers boycott anti-polio campaign in Quetta
Syed Ali Shah QUETTA: Due to threats and intimidation, lady health workers (LHWs) have announced on Monday evening a boycott of the anti-polio campaign in Quetta. The LHWs announced the boycott after...
Khyber vaccinators decide to boycott anti-polio drive
Ibrahim Shinwari LANDI KOTAL: Health workers and their supervisors on Saturday announced boycott of the upcoming anti-polio vaccination campaign in Jamrud and Landi Kotal, which is scheduled to start...
Women in Balochistan severely malnourished, experts warn
Syed Ali Shah Health experts in Balochistan are sounding the alarm bells as scores of women continue to suffer from malnourishment and anemia, a major cause of increasing maternal mortality rate in...
Six-day immunisation drive begins in Quetta
QUETTA: Balochistan Health Minister Mir Rehmat Saleh Baloch inaugurated a six-day immunisation campaign in parts of Quetta district on Monday. The drive launched against nine fatal diseases would...
Two more polio cases reported
ISLAMABAD: With confirmation of two new polio cases in the country on Monday, the toll for this year has climbed to 262. The Polio Virology Laboratory said one case each was reported from Khyber...