Islamabad, March 5 (IANS) Pakistan on Thursday reported its first wild polio virus case of 2026 in a four-year-old child from Bello Union Council in Sujawal district of Sindh province, local media reported. According to Pakistan’s National Emergency Operations Centre for Polio Eradication (NEOC), the case was detected through the polio surveillance network and the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad confirmed it, Pakistan’s l…
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Islamabad/New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) Pakistan has cut short the anti-polio campaign over cash crunch and a slash in workers’ payments, according to a media report.The Tribune Express reported that the duration of the anti-polio drive has been reduced to just four days from the earlier scheduled seven days.Major cuts have also been made to the compensation of male and female polio workers, area in-charges, and union council medical officers.While polio workers, previously paid a lump sum of 13,000 …