The polio eradication is now become a dilemma for the nation, yesterday a polio eradication worker and cop, in kpk that is very alarming for the campaign against that deadly disease. According to news reports government makes strenuous efforts to prevent the spread of poliovirus, the ongoing nationwide inoculation campaign was met with gun attacks leaving two dead in multiple attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on the first day of the vaccination drive.
In Karak, a polio team was targeted by unknown gunmen in the Shakar Khel area of Banda Daud Shah Tehsil. The attack resulted in the martyrdom of a policeman escorting the vaccinators and injured one polio worker, said the police.
Meanwhile, a polio worker was gunned down in a separate incident in Bannu’s Kala Khel Masti Khan Area while he was on his way to work.
Polio eradication campaign begins yesterday all over the country
A week-long countrywide anti-polio campaign began on Monday (today) with the goal of vaccinating around 44 million children, while the number of poliovirus cases in Pakistan has mounted to 63 this year, but it has not been successful for which it would not be wrong to blame the entire nation as a whole. Conversely new treatments for various diseases are being discovered all over the world while we are stuck in the cycle of giving or not giving polio vaccine to children.
Now only Pakistan and Afghanistan are left in the world suffering from polio.
Actually these two nations should feel the shame deeply otherwise this disease will never eradicate. Regarding anti-polio, Prime Minister says that anti-polio drive is a national goal for which we are all united. We have to reach every child to get polio vaccine. In Pakistan effective measures are being taken for anti-polio and maternal and child treatment in collaboration with development partners.
During the anti-polio campaign many polio workers and security personnel have sacrificed their lives in the performance of their duties
Thanks to the vaccine more than 20 million people around the world got rid of polio. If that vaccine had not been developed the situation in the world would have been different today.
The anti-polio campaign started in Pakistan in 1988, at that time, the polio virus was present in 125 countries of the world and more than three and a half million children had been disabled by polio today polio has been eradicated from 99% of the world.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are two such countries where polio cases are emerging In Pakistan effective measures are being taken for polio prevention and maternal and child treatment in collaboration with development partners. Government measures are in place but we still have new cases of envirmental samples in deferent cities, including Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been confirmed.
After confirmation of the presence of polio virus in sewage water four new cases had been reported in Peshawar so far. After the recent cases the number of polio virus cases in the environmental samples of different regions of the country polio virus cases have been confirmed in. Polio could not be controlled despite receiving millions of rupees concessions and salaries for polio prevention.
Therefore it is necessary that on one hand the government officials perform their duties in a better and on the other hand citizens should fully cooperate with these officials.
In fact the biggest obstacle that has come up in the country against polio so far is the people who refuse to give polio vaccine to children for which formal legislation has also been made but despite this these refusing parents are hindering the campaign which will now have to be dealt strictly.
According to the Prime Minister in order to eliminate the negative thinking found against the polio vaccine in the society. It is necessary that academics and religious scholars come forward and explain its usefulness. Until awareness about the polio vaccine is not raised in the society we will not be able to cope with that crippling disease.
