PESHAWAR:
As many as 91,000 youngsters below the age of 5 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa missed polio drops throughout the seven-day anti-polio vaccination drive began on January 16 within the province, a report by the well being division has disclosed.
The report stated that greater than 71,530 youngsters weren’t current at their homes on the time of vaccination in 36 districts of the province whereas 20,305 dad and mom refused to manage polio drops to their youngsters.
It stated {that a} goal of vaccinating 7.459 million youngsters was set for the week-long marketing campaign out of which 7.455 million youngsters got the anti-polio drops and vitamin-A.
It stated that majority of the refusal instances have been reported from Peshawar the place 7,352 dad and mom declined to get their youngsters vaccinated.
Equally, 10,898 youngsters weren’t current at house throughout the go to of polio groups. North Waziristan was the second district of the province the place 2,919 dad and mom refused polio vaccination to their youngsters, adopted by Bannu with 2,251 refusal instances.
The opposite districts of refusal included Charsadda with 215 instances, DI Khan with 1,674 instances, Hangu with 9 instances, Haripur with two instances, Karak with 742 instances, Khyber with 206 instances, Kohat with 161 instances, Lakki Marwat with 1,437 instances, Mardan with 934 instances and Mohmand with 1,241 instances. Nowshera has 220 instances, Swabi 400 instances, Swat 5 instances, Tank 304 instances, Torghar 4 instances and South Waziristan
The report additional stated that 1,144 weak youngsters missed the dose in Abbottabad, 2,929 in Bajaur, 4,622 in Bannu, 639 in Batagram, 887 in Buner, 3,772 in Charsadda, 735 in Chitral Decrease, 721 in Chitral Higher, 8,294 in DI Khan, 3,720 in Dir Decrease, 784 in Dir Higher, 986 in Hangu, 1,422 in Haripur, 1,814 in Karak, 2,976 in Khyber, 1,539 in Kohat, 50 in Kohistan Decrease, 144 in Kohistan Kohistan Higher, two in Kolaipalas, 891 in Kurram, 2,858 in Lakki Marwat, 1,266 Malakand, 2,779 in Mansehra, 3,470 in Mardan, 3,553 in Mohmand, 4,628 in Nowshera, 380 in Orakzai, 18,250 in Peshawar, 335 in Shangla, 2,625 in Swabi, 6,084 in Swat, 2,042 in Tank, 79 in Torghar, 4,589 in North Waziristan and 826 in South Waziristan.
In Peshawar as many as 903,297 youngsters have been vaccinated towards the crippling polio illness. The report stated that final yr 20 instances of polio have been reported from three southern districts of the province together with 17 from North Waziristan, two from Lakki Marwat and one from South Waziristan.
Revealed in The Specific Tribune, February 9th2023.
