New polio case reported

KASHMORE—A medical team, administering drops during a house to house vaccination campaign detected a suspected polio patient in Dil Murad village of Thull taluka on Friday. In-charge of the district’s polio campaign, Dr Hafizullah Sarki told reporters that he suspected the seven-month-old Imran, son of Munir Ahmed Kanrani, had polio because his left leg was paralysed. Samples of his stool had been sent to Islamabad for carrying out tests to confirm if the child had the disease, he said. Dr. Santosh, a member of the team, said that the child’s father told them that his son had been administered drops more than once during previous campaigns.

—Agencies