Three more polio cases surface in Sindh

KARACHI: The Polio Eradication Initiative officials on Friday said three more children, one each from the districts Kambar, Dadu and Sajawal have been tested positive for the Wild Polio Virus 1 (WPV1).

“Three more children, one each from the districts Kambar, Dadu and Sajawal have contracted polio virus. Two of the children belonging to districts Kambar and Dadu contracted the disease in 2019 but the lab has confirmed the cases today. Similarly, a child from Sujawal district who is the second polio case of 2020 in Sindh”, an official of the Emergency Operation Center (EOC) for Polio in Sindh said on Friday.

The official maintained that with the latest polio cases, the polio case count of the year 2019 increased to 139 including 27 cases in Sindh, while in the year 2020, four children have so far been crippled by polio in the entire country including two from Sindh.

The official maintained that an eight-year-old boy from district Kambar, Union Council Kambar III was tested positive for the polio virus. He belonged to a family of farmers. The child had not received routine immunization but parents claimed he was been given seven doses of the vaccine.

The second polio case was reported from district Dadu, the EOC Sindh official confirmed, where a 2-year-old boy in Union Council Drigh Bala has been Tested positive for the polio virus after he felt from weakness in the facial muscles.

Separately, there was another case reported from Sindh for 2020 taking the total for Pakistan to 4 for the current year. “A 42-month -old boy from district Sujawal, UC Koti has been crippled by the polio virus whose right lower limb is affected. According to parents, he also reviewed over 7 doses.