Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: During the polio campaign, 93 thousand children were deprived of polio drops
Three polio cases were reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa this year, but despite this, 93,000 children were deprived of polio shots during last months campaign.
According to the emergency operation, when the polio teams arrived, they were informed that seventy thousand children were not at home, sixteen thousand parents refused to give the children drops, last year twenty polio cases were reported from this province.
8,000 parents who refused during the Emergency Operation Center campaign are from Peshawar, it was reported that 77,000 children were not at home during the polio campaign.
According to Deputy Coordinator, 3 polio cases were reported from Bannu district in the province this year, polio virus was confirmed in different districts of the province.