KARACHI:The Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) for Polio in Sindh Wednesday confirmed one new polio case from Shikarpur. This polio case takes the total tally in Sindh to eight and 25 in Pakistan this year so far.
Spokesperson EOC Sindh while talking to PPI, said a 36-month-old female child had been affected by the polio with weakness in her left lower limb in UC Ghari Dakho, district Shikarpur with the date of onset being 11 February 2020. The child had received seven doses of OPV according to parents and no IPV. Further investigation into the case is ongoing.
The EOC Sindh and National have started to fight back to get polio eradication on track and reverse this trend. The first step was the successful Dec NID followed by a case response in January and yet another campaign conducted in February.
In Karachi, the February campaign achieved 97.5 and the overall Sindh campaign achieved above 100 percent administrative coverage.
The efforts and delivery of quality campaigns over the next few months will bridge the immunity gap that will lead to significant decrease in intensity of virus transmission in 2nd half of 2020.
The current risk to our children is very real and while it is our job to deliver these vaccines at the doorstep, caregivers must also step up and protect their children through vaccinations.
The National EOC and Sindh EOC urged parents to ensure immunization of their children both in routine as well as the special campaigns planned by the programme during next few months.