ISLAMABAD: Pakistan polio crisis is aggregating with each passing day, as four more cases were reported in the country, pushing the toll of 2014 to 266.
According to World Health Organisation, the new cases were reported from Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) (two cases), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (one case) and Balochistan (one case).
It is to be mentioned here that WHO had earlier asked Pakistan to overcome the polio crisis within six months, otherwise it will attract more restriction.
Pakistan polio crisis has hit new depths this year with militants attack on polio workers and large-scale refugee displacement and political chaos that has cemented the country’s role as the central global incubator of a disease that other conflict-torn countries have managed to hold in check.
The number of new Pakistani polio cases this year 266 , four times as many as at the same point last year, making a mockery of promises by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and other politicians from across the spectrum to halt the galloping progress of the disease.
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