BAJAUR AGENCY A personal of Bajaur levies force was gunned down when unknown armed persons attacked a polio vaccination team in the border area of Tehsil Mamond in Bajaur tribal region on Monday morning. Locals and officials of the political administration of Bajaur said ...

A security force soldier was gunned down when a polio vaccination team was attacked in Bajaur Agency bordering Afghanistan on Monday.Officials said miscreants in Mamond area opened fire on an anti-polio team.A soldier of Levies Forces, who was escorting the immunization team, was killed in the ...

islamabad - A child has contracted polio for the first time in Pakistan's militant-infested tribal belt since the Taliban banned vaccinations a year ago, a UN official said on Monday."The new case has been detected in North Waziristan where we had been denied access in June last year," the World ...

ISLAMABAD - Though, the recently held first nationwide polio vaccination drive of the year missed some 1.83 million children, still the polio eradication partners after the sharp decline in the cases are quite optimistic and hoping that if the pace is continued the country may be declared polio ...

london - Health groups said on Thursday they could rid the world of polio by 2018 with a $5.5 billion (3.5 billion pounds) vaccination and monitoring plan to stop the disease taking hold once more now there are only a handful of cases worldwide. Experts say the plan offers the best chance yet to ...

LAHORE - Punjab Ombudsman Javed Mehmood has taken notice of the sale of refrigerator and vaccine boxes purchased for preserving anti-polio medicines in Sheikhupura. Seeking report in a week, the ombudsman ordered the authorities to mention in the report about the process of check and balance.  ...

KARACHI  - Sindh Caretaker Health Minister Junaid Ali Shah inaugurated anti-polio campaign here on Monday. Speaking to media, he said police and rangers would provide security to the teams of anti-polio vaccinators across the City, while he would himself supervise the campaign in sensitive ...

PESHAWAR - The three-day anti-polio drive kicked off in Fata and Frontier Regions (FRs) on Monday to reach out to a target population of 7,67,360 children.A total of 2,704 teams have been constituted to reach out to the population in Fata out of which 2380 are mobile teams, 247 fixed and 77 transit ...

BAHAWALPUR – The district administration has urged the people to get their children under the age of 5 years vaccinated against polio during the three-day campaign starting on Monday (today). “About 545,198 would be administered drops during the drive. It is a national responsibility so ...

BAHAWALPUR – The district administration has urged the people to get their children under the age of 5 years vaccinated against polio during the three-day campaign starting on Monday (today). “About 545,198 would be administered drops during the drive. It is a national responsibility so ...

MULTAN - The DCO Syed Gulzar Hussain Shah has said that full protection will be given to polio vaccination teams as police department has evolved a comprehensive security plan for the upcoming three-day vaccination drive.He disclosed this while addressing a meeting held here to review arrangements ...

RAWALPINDI– More than 300 vaccinators in Rawalpindi, hired to carry on health campaigns funded by international institutions, have threatened to boycott the upcoming anti-polio campaign for not getting their payments.All the preparations of the anti-polio campaign to be held from April 15 ...

MULTAN - The DCO Syed Gulzar Hussain Shah has said that full protection will be given to polio vaccination teams as police department has evolved a comprehensive security plan for the upcoming three-day vaccination drive.He disclosed this while addressing a meeting held here to review arrangements ...

The three day country wide anti-polio campaign begins on Monday.It has been announced by the Prime Minister's Polio Monitoring and Coordination Cell and the Ministry of Inter-Provincial Coordination in Islamabad. During the campaign polio vaccination drops will be administered to the children of ...

HAFIZABAD - DCO Capt (r) Muhammad Zafar Iqbal has directed the officials of Health Department to ensure administration of anti-polio drops to each and every child in the district during three-day anti-polio campaign being started from April 15. He also appealed to parents to save their innocent ...

KARACHI - Additional Inspector General Police Ghulam Shabbir Shaikh has ordered Muhafiz Force to provide security to polio teams during the anti-polio drive in the city from April 15 to 17.He said this while presiding over a meeting at the Central Police Office here Wednesday. It was decided that ...

MARDAN - One cop was killed while other got seriously injured in an attack on an anti-polio vaccination team in Mosam Koroona area on Wednesday.An anti-polio vaccination team, comprising two constables, two females and a male health worker, was on vaccinating drive in Mosam Koroona in the precincts ...

PESHAWAR - Expressing concern over the alleged financial corruption in the polio-eradication funds in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the ulema engaged in the campaign demanded an inquiry against the health officials responsible for misappropriation.Addressing a press conference here at press club, the ...

LAHORE – Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi has asked the departments concerned to continue anti-polio campaign in the province as well as motive the parents to protect the future of their children by getting polio drops administered to them.  “Polio is a dangerous disease ...

MULTAN/SHEIKHUPURA - The three-day polio vaccination drive will commence from April 15 and over 0.6 million children below the age of five will be administered polio drops, disclosed EDO Health Dr Iftikhar Qureshi.Briefing the participants of a meeting here on Saturday, the EDO claimed that not ...

MULTAN/SHEIKHUPURA - The three-day polio vaccination drive will commence from April 15 and over 0.6 million children below the age of five will be administered polio drops, disclosed EDO Health Dr Iftikhar Qureshi.Briefing the participants of a meeting here on Saturday, the EDO claimed that not ...

BAHAWALNAGAR - DCO Syed Rizwan Mehboob has warned the administration of private schools of cancellation of registration if any school refused to administration of anti-polio drops to their school children. He was addressing a combined meeting of the Health, Education and Revenue officers which was ...

BAHAWALNAGAR - DCO Syed Rizwan Mehboob has warned the administration of private schools of cancellation of registration if any school refused to administration of anti-polio drops to their school children.  He was addressing a combined meeting of the Health, Education and Revenue officers ...

LAHORE – Dispelling the impression that polio vaccine lacks efficacy and can damage health, medical experts contended that it is necessary for every child to develop immunity against the menace. They ruled out the possibility that polio vaccine can negatively affect a child, irrespective of ...

SWABI – Suspected militants gunned down an Elite Force personnel providing security to polio vaccinators here on Tuesday while two female polio campaigners escaped unhurt in attack, police and health officials said. Polio vaccinators fearing for their life suspended the campaign ...

HYDERABAD – Deputy Commissioner Agha Shahnawaz Babar has set up a Polio Control Room of Hyderabad District as per the criteria of National Emergency Action Plan for Polio Eradication 2013. The Deputy Commissioner has assigned Abid Saleem Qureshi ADC II (Designated Officer/Focal person for ...

KARACHI - The anti-polio campaign on Monday resumed in the metropolis amid strict security by the police and Rangers. The anti-polio was started in different areas of the City, including Liaquatabad, Gulberg, North Nazimabad and New Karachi Town.Not a single incident was reported on the first day ...

The ruthless killings of innocent volunteers administering polio drops has frustrated many who are fighting a holy war against a disease which puts millions of Pakistanis at risk. The campaign was scaled down on Wednesday by the UNICEF due to more than eight killings in different part of the ...

There seems to be a lot of controversy about the dispensation of Polio vaccine in Pakistan. This scheme started somewhere in the early 90’ and even then there was a rumor that it would spread infertility, as if that would affect Pakistan too much! But now the trend of killing the innocent, ...

QUETTA - A polio campaign which was scheduled to start from Monday (today) has been postponed due to security reasons, on Sunday. According to sources, WHO had postponed three-day anti-polio campaign in three districts of Balochistan, including Quetta, Pishin and Qila Abdullah.  “The ...