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Islamabad: Pakistan is not able to get free from polio. The first case of polio has come to light here in the new year 2025. Information about this was given in a media report on Wednesday. According to media reports, a case of polio has been found in Tank district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Here, polio virus infection has been confirmed in a 13-month-old girl.

Symptoms were seen for the first time on 25 November

Citing sources from the National Reference Lab, it was reported in the newspaper Express Tribune that the girl had shown symptoms of polio for the first time on November 25, and Wild Poliovirus Type-1 infection has been confirmed in her. This is the situation in Pakistan when in the year 2024, a large-scale campaign was launched to provide free polio vaccines to children under five years of age at their homes.

What do the statistics say?

In Pakistan, 68 cases of polio were recorded in the year 2024, of which Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had 21 cases. 27 cases were reported in Balochistan, 19 cases in Sindh, while one case each of polio virus was reported in Punjab and Islamabad.

resistance to medication

Meanwhile, it is also important to know what happens in the name of polio in Pakistan. Last year, there was firing on a team that had gone to administer polio medicine in Bajaur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. One officer had died in this. There are many groups in Pakistan who remain enemies of the polio campaign. This is the reason why polio has not been eradicated in Pakistan yet. There are many people in Pakistan who associate polio medicine with Islam and oppose giving polio medicine to children. (Language)