Parents face action for refusing polio vaccination

Karachi
The city commissioner has decided to take legal action against parents refusing the administration of anti-polio drops to children.
Shoaib Ahmad Siddiqui while holding a meeting on Monday was informed that around 2,000 children could not be administered with polio drops during the campaign carried out in eight union councils of the city.
Town health officers provided a list of the children whose parents had refused to get their kids vaccinated when the polio workers visited their homes.
The meeting decided that community support would be taken to get those children vaccinated during the next drive scheduled to begin on November 16.
Being one of the only two countries providing a safe haven for polio virus to develop, a complete eradication of the disease from Pakistan was termed a herculean task by World Health Organisation’s representative for Pakistan, Dr Michel Thieren, while addressing the event organised by the Rotary Club on Sunday.
He requested concerned authorities to put in efforts so as not have to observe a World Polio Day ever again.
“So far 38 cases have been reported from Pakistan and 13 from Afghanistan. Although there has been an 85 percent decrease in polio cases in the latter, as compared to 2014, but we can’t declare ourselves victorious until not even a single polio case was reported in the country.”