Daily Times

PESHAWAR: According to the Health Department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) a polio case was reported in Kohistan area of the province. The virus was diagnosed in Adbul Wahid’s nine-month-old daughter Sadia in Kohistan’s Dassu area. The total number of polio cases in the country has been reported 17 in which nine cases were reported from KP, two were from Federal Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), five cases were reported from Sindh while one case was reported Baluchistan. According to the Prime Minister Polio Monitoring Cell informed Daily Times that six polio cases were reported from Bannu, two from Kohistan while Nowshera, Hangu, Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan have one, one each cases were reported. Pakistan’s polio cases are declining, with just 54 cases of polio virus reported last year, down more than 80 per cent from 2014, when the country suffered a large spike in cases. Efforts to eliminate polio in Pakistan have been complicated in recent years, as polio workers have faced attacks by militants who say the health teams are Western spies, or that the vaccines they administer are intended to sterilise children. On October 25, 2016 a polio vaccinator was killed by unknown miscreants in Khyber Agency.