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01-10-2020, 06:09 PM
KARACHI: Two more children have been crippled by the polio virus in Sindh, one each from districts Jamshoro and Kambar, bringing the total number of polio cases of the year 2019 to 24 in the province and 134 in the entire Pakistan, Polio Eradication Initiative officials said on Thursday.
“Two new polio cases for the year 2019, 1 from Jamshoro and one from Kambar have been confirmed today. This takes the total tally of Sindh to 24 and Pakistan to 134 in 2019, the spokesman for the Emergency Operation Center (EOC) for Polio in Sindh said.
In district Kambar, UC Lalu Raunak, a 36 month old male child was affected by polio with weakness on both lower limbs on Dec 14, 2019. According to parents he had received oral polio vaccine (OPV), but not the routine immunization or the injectable polio vaccines (IPV), the EOC official said. In Jamshoro, a 12 year old child was dignosed with polio on Dec 22, 2019 after facing weakness in his face muscles.
The EOC Sindh spokesman conceded that the routine immunization coverage remains a significant challenge as evident by the recent polio cases. This coupled with the long gap in door to door campaigns during 2019 has created a large pool of vulnerable children. However we have a golden opportunity to turn this around as the National EOC and Sindh EOC have started to reverse this trend. The first step was the successful Dec NID (National Immunization Days) campaign and now areas with recent detections are being targeted in a special response round starting from Jan 13th. This will be followed up with two NIDs in Feb and April with another targeted case response in between, he said. These efforts will bridge the immunity gap that will Insha Allah lead to significant decrease in intensity of virus transmission by the second half of 2020.The current risk to our children is very real and while it is our job to deliver these vaccines at the doorstep, caregivers must also step up and protect their children through vaccinations. The National EOC and Sindh EOC asked the parents to ensure immunization of their children both in routine and the special campaigns.
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“Two new polio cases for the year 2019, 1 from Jamshoro and one from Kambar have been confirmed today. This takes the total tally of Sindh to 24 and Pakistan to 134 in 2019, the spokesman for the Emergency Operation Center (EOC) for Polio in Sindh said.
In district Kambar, UC Lalu Raunak, a 36 month old male child was affected by polio with weakness on both lower limbs on Dec 14, 2019. According to parents he had received oral polio vaccine (OPV), but not the routine immunization or the injectable polio vaccines (IPV), the EOC official said. In Jamshoro, a 12 year old child was dignosed with polio on Dec 22, 2019 after facing weakness in his face muscles.
The EOC Sindh spokesman conceded that the routine immunization coverage remains a significant challenge as evident by the recent polio cases. This coupled with the long gap in door to door campaigns during 2019 has created a large pool of vulnerable children. However we have a golden opportunity to turn this around as the National EOC and Sindh EOC have started to reverse this trend. The first step was the successful Dec NID (National Immunization Days) campaign and now areas with recent detections are being targeted in a special response round starting from Jan 13th. This will be followed up with two NIDs in Feb and April with another targeted case response in between, he said. These efforts will bridge the immunity gap that will Insha Allah lead to significant decrease in intensity of virus transmission by the second half of 2020.The current risk to our children is very real and while it is our job to deliver these vaccines at the doorstep, caregivers must also step up and protect their children through vaccinations. The National EOC and Sindh EOC asked the parents to ensure immunization of their children both in routine and the special campaigns.
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