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Polio-pakistan

Polio Cripples Another Child in Balochistan

ISLAMABAD: Poliovirus has crippled another child in Balochistan, raising the number of total polio cases to 46 in Pakistan this year so far, Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) officials said 05-Novemeber-2024. This is the second confirmed case of polio in Killa Saifullah, a district where multiple environmental samples have also tested…
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Families Of Electrocuted Children Compensated

TANK: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Usman Khan Bhitani on 03-November-2024 gave cheques worth for Rs1 million each to the families of the four children who were recently electrocuted in Tank district. The deputy commissioner, Tank, district police officer and the local elders were present at the ceremony.…
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Misconceptions Rise as Polio Cases Surge Across Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Fed up with Pakistan’s rising polio cases, health authorities across provinces are increasingly attributing the spread of the virus to a range of unique factors, including malnutrition, gaps in Routine Immunization (RI), parental refusals, and, most recently, paralysis linked to injection neuritis a theory recently posited by health officials…
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Blast Near Police Van on Security Duty Of Polio Team Kills 9 in Mastung

QUETTA: A bomb blast near a girls’ high school in Mastung, Balochistan, claimed the lives of nine people, including six schoolchildren, a police officer, and two passers-by. Thirty others were injured. The explosive device, planted on a motorcycle, exploded with great force, damaging several cars. Following the blast, eleven of…
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Teenager Assaulted

LAHORE: An accused on 01-November-2024 assaulted a teenage girl in the Shad Bagh area. According to Shad Bagh police, accused Rohit alias Chitta barged into the house of a 17-year-old girl with his accomplices and assaulted her, and took away 1.5 tola gold jewellery and Rs200,000. The police registered the…
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Polio Cripples Another Child In Chagai

ISLAMABAD: Polio crippled another child in the Chagai district of Balochistan, where a 5-year-old girl was paralyzed by the wild poliovirus, bringing the national polio case count to 43 this year. The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health confirmed the case on 30 October…
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Tally Reaches 42 as Polio Cripples Another Child

ISLAMABAD/ KALAYA/MIRANSHAH/ KOHAT/LAHORE: Polio has crippled yet another child in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where a 30-month-old girl has become the 42nd victim of the virus this year in Pakistan, officials confirmed on 29-October-2024. The diagnosis, verified by Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health, highlights…
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