Monday, 7 February 2022 (YJC)_ The head of the Center for Combating Polio in Afghanistan said that the first positive case of the disease was registered in 2022 in Dila city of Paktika province.
Nick Wali Shah Momen, director of the Center for Polio and Pediatrics in Afghanistan, announced the first positive case of the disease in 2022 in Dileh, Paktika province.
He said the virus was similar to the virus released in Quetta, Pakistan.
The senior Taliban health ministry official expressed concern about the spread of polio, adding:
Teams from the Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization and UNICEF are currently in the area working to further spread the disease.
Officials at the Taliban Ministry of Health say that over the past three years, Diyala city and some other areas of Paktika have not been covered by the nationwide polio plan due to insecurity, which has led to the spread of the disease.
Reacting to the announcement of the registration of the first child with polio in the province, Hekmatullah Esmat, head of the Paktika Health Department, called on all people, scholars and tribal elders to work with health officials to prevent the spread of the disease.
Last year, 2 cases of polio were reported in Afghanistan, of which 5 cases were registered in Imam Sahib city of Kunduz province and 4 cases were registered in Andar city of Ghazni.
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