{"id":50021,"date":"2014-04-30T09:21:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T06:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=50021"},"modified":"2014-04-30T09:21:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T06:21:03","slug":"5-fresh-polio-cases-detected-in-pakistan-50021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/5-fresh-polio-cases-detected-in-pakistan-50021\/","title":{"rendered":"5 fresh polio cases detected in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50022\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-50022 \" alt=\"A baby being administered polio drops in Pakistan. File Pic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Polio-Drops-Pakistan-Nationalturk-30.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Polio-Drops-Pakistan-Nationalturk-30.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Polio-Drops-Pakistan-Nationalturk-30-280x210.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A baby being administered polio drops in Pakistan. File Pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Five fresh polio cases were detected in Pakistan prompting fears that country\u2019s citizens may face travel ban for its government\u2019s failure to curb the spread of poliovirus.<\/h1>\n<p>Islamabad, April 30\/Nationalturk \u2013 In a worrying factor, five fresh polio cases were detected in Pakistan and country is likely to face travel restrictions from the World Health Organisation\u2019s International Health Regulatory (IHR) Emergency Committee for its failure to curb the spread of poliovirus.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s National Institute of Health has \u00a0confirmed that five fresh cases of polio have been detected in \u00a0three different areas of North Waziristan, South Waziristan and Bannu.<\/p>\n<p>The health officials said children were affected by the polio virus. \u201cIdentities of the patients were being ascertained\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They said 56 polio cases have been reported in different areas of the country so far this year, which is a worrying sign.<\/p>\n<h2>Pakistani citizens may face travel ban<\/h2>\n<p>The detection of new polio cases coincide with a meeting of WHOs health committee in Geneva where a report into polio situation in Pakistan was presented, triggering fears of travel ban on Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IHR Emergency Committee has been constituted by the WHO to review the status of polio-affected countries in order to give recommendations to Dr Margaret Chan, the WHO\u2019s Director-General, regarding the possibility of imposing restrictions on Pakistan,\u201d an official working at the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination (NHSRC) was quoted as saying by Pakistan newspaper, Express Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>The committee conducted teleconference meetings from Geneva with the representatives of governments from polio-affected countries over two days.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Pakistan said\u00a0 there is a serious threat that \u00a0members of the WHO committee will recommend to Dr Chan that travel restrictions be imposed on Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>All the decisions take by the committee are legally binding.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s Minister of State for the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination Saira Afzal Tarar was quoted as saying by Pakistani newspaper \u00a0that any travel restrictions on Pakistani citizens would \u00a0discourage all stakeholders involved in eradicating polio from the country.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Asia News \/ NationalTurk Pakistan News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five fresh polio cases were detected in Pakistan prompting fears that country\u2019s citizens may face travel ban for its government\u2019s failure to curb the spread of poliovirus.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,107,118,101,14],"tags":[63529,42779,43444,13697,68499,68498,2724,647,636,68501,68497,68500,648,66173,29651,68496],"class_list":["post-50021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-health","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-bannu","tag-detected","tag-express-tribune","tag-geneva","tag-ihr","tag-international-health-regulatory","tag-islamabad","tag-north-waziristan","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistans-national-institute-of-health","tag-polio-cases","tag-poliovirus","tag-south-waziristan","tag-travel-restrictions","tag-world-health-organisation","tag-worrying-factor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}