ISLAMABAD: According to reports cited by ARY News on Monday, during the nationwide polio vaccination programme that ran from January 2 to January 29, over 62 thousand parents declined to vaccinate their children.
In three stages, the anti-polio campaign was held in January, and 62,411 parents refused to give their kids the polio vaccine.
According to sources, Sindh is home to the majority of the parents who chose not to give their children the polio vaccine. In Sindh, 37,008 parents declined to have their children receive the polio vaccine, while in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 20,305 parents did the same.
In addition, 36 parents in Punjab, 141 households in Islamabad, and 4,902 parents in Balochistan refused to give their children the polio vaccine.
According to information released by the government, parents refused immunisation during the polio vaccination campaign in Karachi East (2.4%), Korangi district (1.2%), Karachi South (1.1%), Keamari district (1.3%), Karachi Central (1.7%), and Malir district (0.9%).
0.2% of families in the Hyderabad district choose not to give their children the polio vaccine.
The campaign was started as a result of the discovery of wild poliovirus in Lahore sewage samples in January.
According to the national polio lab at the National Institutes of Health, the first positive sample of 2023 was found on January 19 and was genetically connected to the poliovirus detected in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan in November 2022.
It had been more than a year since there had been any indication of cross-border transmission. The second positive sample, which was genetically connected to a virus spreading in southern KP, was reported on January 27.
After an outbreak in southern KP left 20 children incapacitated in September 2022, Pakistan has not reported another human case of polio. Nonetheless, the programme undertakes active disease surveillance, and in January the virus was found twice in sewage samples from Lahore, providing consistent evidence of the infection's presence.
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