4,600 refusa­l cases surfac­ed during the four-day anti-polio drive in Hydera­badHYDERABAD: With around 4,600 refusal cases emerging during the four-day anti-polio drive in Hyderabad, a report of National Institute of Health (NIH) has found, for the fourth consecutive month, presence of the virus in the district’s sewage. The refusal cases have increased from around 3,000 in the last campaign. “The polio teams were even threatened in some areas and forcefully expelled from others,” said the focal person of the anti-polio campaign, Dr Muhammad Ali. “In the union councils 16 and 17 of Latifabad, the polio teams were given death threats”. Meanwhile, according to a report, the NIH detected the polio virus in Hyderabad’s Tulsi Das pumping station for the fourth consecutive month this year.

Source: The Express Tribune April 26, 2019 03:53 UTC