A success story of Pakistan: The country at the verge of winning the battle against polio

In our previous study, we highlighted important constraints, including religion, politics, unawareness, insecurity, inequity, bad governance and lack of social responsibility in the eradication of polio from Pakistan [1]. Despite of all these constrain, however, country has shown great success towards elimination of polio. The number of cases reported from Pakistan in 2014 and 2015 were 304 and 54 respectively, while in 2016, only 20 cases were reported. It is suggesting a drop of 94% in 2014 and a further drop of 65% since 2015 [2].
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Source Type: research