Already, more cases this year than in 2017The Independent Monitoring Board’s latest report makes frightening reading, because it says that Pakistan’s Polio Programme had fooled itself into thinking it had made any progress since 2017. Released in October last year, it is only now that the PM’s Focal Person on Polio, Babar Bin Atta, has announced that its recommendations will be implemented. As one of only four countries left where polio occurs, Pakistan has a special responsibility, to all Mankind, to ensure its eradication from its soil. The tendency to abandon the programme at the least sign of resistance, which was seen when vaccinators were attacked, must be countered. Only a truly vigorous vaccination programme, backed intellectually by a vigorous awareness programme, and physically by the law-enforcing resources of the state, will provide the necessary impetus.

Source: Pakistan Today June 02, 2019 15:56 UTC