Sargodha girl becomes
another polio victim.
Islamabad: Punjab has
reported the second polio case this year. Earlier this year, a
three-year-old girl had tested positive for polio in Essakhel area of
Mianwali district and now another girl from the province has been
found to be suffering from the crippling virus.
According to an official at the Prime Minister’s
Monitoring and Coordination Cell for Polio, the latest Punjab polio
case is Nurunnisa, 8, from Bhalwaal area of Sargodha district. He
said that the girl had contracted the disease though she was
vaccinated against it many times.
The official said that the case would be thoroughly
examined to know the reason(s) of her suffering from polio despite
vaccination. He said the Sargodha case had taken the number of this
year’s polio sufferers to 14. According to him, most of this year’s
polio cases i.e. six were reported in the tribal areas bordering
Afghanistan, followed by four in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and two in Sindh
and Punjab each.
