Two more cases of poliovirus have been reported in Pakistan.
According to the National Emergency Operations Center (EOC), two more polio cases have been confirmed in Pakistan, taking the total number of cases in the country this year to 67.
The National EOC said that the lab has confirmed one polio case each from Tank and Kashmore.
This is the fourth polio case from Tank and the second from Kashmore this year.
Meanwhile, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government, led by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has introduced a new policy linking the issuance of essential official certificates to polio vaccination in a bid to strengthen efforts against the virus.
The Peshawar district administration has mandated that birth, marriage, divorce, and death certificates will only be issued upon submission of a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the District Health Officer (DHO).
This NOC will confirm that children in the applicant’s family have been vaccinated against polio.
This policy follows the recent anti-polio campaign in Peshawar, during which around 20,000 children remained unvaccinated. Alarmingly, parental refusal accounted for 8,000 of these cases. The administration is implementing targeted measures to address these refusals.
