Staff Reporter
Peshawar
Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has confirmed detection of four more polio cases from Lakki Marwat and Tank districts of the province, raising the total count of polio cases in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to 72 and 98 in Pakistan overall. According to the details, National Institute of Health (NIH) laboratory has isolated wild polio virus from stool samples of 3 months boy and 11 months girl of Tehsil Sarai Naurang, 11 months girl from Deratang Union Council of District Lakki Marwat and 12 months female child from Union Council Waraspoon of Tehsil Tank.
According to parents of all the three affected children in Lakki Marwat none of them have had essential immunization or polio vaccine administered in recent month. However, child from tank has had 3 doses of routine immunization but no IPV.
