A second case of polio was detected in Badin district on Wednesday, according to World Health Organisation (WHO) representative and health officials. Six-year-old Imran, son of Javed Jat, and a resident of Mohammad Qasim Jat village near Badin's Kario Ghanwar town, was diagnosed with polio virus after a stool sample was sent to the National Institute of Health in Islamabad.
According to the Emergency Operation Centre for polio in Sindh, a total of eight cases of polio have been detected this year. Dr Shaikh Tanweer Ahmed, chief executive officer of the Health and Nutrition Development Society, an organisation working on health and nutrition issues, expressed deep concern over the increasing number of cases in Sindh particularly in the coastal belt.