The new year’s first polio case was reported on Thursday morning from Balochistan’s Chaghi district.
Sources from the Balochistan Health Department said that the crippling virus was found in two-year-old Shafi Muhammad from the Barabcha area that lies close to the Pak-Afghan border. This was the first polio case to be reported in 2015 in the country.
A total of 22 polio cases were reported from Balochistan in 2014 and most of these were reported from Quetta, Killa Abdullah and Pishin districts of the province.
Polio teams have been facing tough resistance from extremists in the above-mentioned districts.
