Pakistan making its efforts to attain the goal of Zero Prevalence of Polio by the end of the current year has reported no less than 17 confirmed cases of polio during the first six months of the year, that is June 2004.
WHO operations officer for Sindh talking to APP here on Tuesday said seven confirmed cases of the disease has been reported from Sindh and another seven from NWFP respectively while the remaining three were registered in Punjab.
Dr Asif Aslam of Unicef-Sindh giving an outbreak of the cases reported in the province mentioned that one each of these pertained to Karachi, Nawabshah and Sanghar while two each were from Ghotki and Jacobabad
It would not be out of context to mention that a national polio surveillance review meeting held only recently registered its serious reservations regarding coverage as well as quality of vaccination campaign in certain parts of the country, including Karachi, during national immunisation and sub national immunisations days being held at regular intervals.