Punjab has reported its first-ever polio case in the year 2014 which has set alarm bells ringing for the government as the crippling disease has now infiltrated low-risk zones of the country as well.
The polio virology laboratory at National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, on Thursday confirmed four fresh wild type-1 polio cases in the country each from Punjab, Sindh, Khyber-Pakhtunkwa and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, taking the nationwide tally to 108 children.
The year’s first case of polio in Punjab was diagnosed in a 35-month-old baby girl named Noorul Huda, daughter of Waqar Haider, who is a resident of Union Council and Tehsil Kalar Kahar, district Chakwal.
According to her parents, she had received over seven doses of polio vaccine. Last year a total of seven polio cases were reported from Punjab.
