Daily Times

Seven new cases of polio surfaced in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Balochistan and Sindh, taking the toll to 114 this year. According to details, four patients have been reportedly attacked by polio virus in KP, while in Balochistan, two people got affected by this disease.

Meanwhile, another polio case was reported in Sindh, taking the number of cases to 17 in the province so far. According to the Health Ministry, the polio was reported from the Badin district of Sindh. The authorities said a two-and-half-year-old boy from Badin was diagnosed with the crippling disease. Meanwhile, it could not be established that the affected boy was administered anti-polio drops or not during the campaigns against the virus. This is the seventeenth case which has been reported from Sindh province during the ongoing year. The officials said that out of the total, 17 cases of this crippling disease, two cases each were reported in Karachi, Hyderabad, Jamshoro and Larkana. While single each cases was reported Mirpur Khas, Sujawal and Benazirabad.