The program, which ends on July 13, was created in reaction to the polio case that was recently discovered in Kemari. This is the eighth occurrence of polio in the nation this year, with the first three cases occurring in Karachi and Sindh.
The campaign targets around 100,000 children under five who were not able to receive their vaccine doses during the previous campaigns for a variety of reasons, including parental rejection. It serves all of Karachi’s districts.
Officials claim that the poliovirus, which has been regularly found in sewage samples collected from the drains in these locations this year, is “infected” in all seven districts of the city.
A campaign is underway in all of Karachi’s districts to vaccinate 100,000 “missed children” against polio.
Out of the 203 positive environmental samples across the rest of Pakistan in 2024, 62 samples taken from various regions of the metropolis proved positive.
District East in Karachi has the greatest number of positive samples (21) according to statistics from the Sindh-Extended Programme on Immunization (EPI), followed by Keamari (11), South (12), Central (6), Malir (6), Korangi (5), and West (1).
