High incidence of polio cases in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan has set alarm bells ringing. According to National Coordinator of the Prime Minister Polio Monitoring and Coordination Cell Dr. Altaf Bosan, the polio situation in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) is very critical.
High incidence
of polio cases in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan has set alarm
bells ringing. According to National Coordinator of the Prime Minister
Polio Monitoring and Coordination Cell Dr. Altaf Bosan, the polio
situation in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) is very
critical.
“There is a danger that a large number of polio
cases will emerge in the next months if the current outbreak in FATA
with epicenter in restive Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency and North
Waziristan Agency is not contained,” he told this scribe on Thursday.
Dr. Bosan said that FATA was the region with the highest number of polio
cases in the country in 2013.
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