KP reports first polio case of 2020

Bureau report

PESHAWAR: The National Institute of Health (NIH) Islamabad has notified first wild polio case of the year 2020 from Serai Naurang area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat district as the national case count closed at 136 for the year 2019.

The wild poliovirus has been isolated from the stool sample of 12 months old male child from Bakhmal Ahmadzai Union Council, Serai Naurang in Lakki Marwat.

According to the Health Department officials, the family had refused essential immunisation and three doses of SIAs. Out of 136 polio cases, the majority of cases were reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. And in KP, most of the polio cases were reported in Tank and Bannu districts in the southern belt.