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government has shown concern over detection of polio
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among the vaccinated children in the areas where vaccination coverage was more than the national target of 95 per cent.
Officials said that government sought help of World Health Organisation (WHO) in strengthening post-campaign monitoring to ensure that all the children received oral polio vaccine.
The concerns were shown by Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti and Chief Secretary Ghulam Dastagir Akhtar during a meeting with a delegation, led by adviser to WHO director general Hussein A. Gezairy on Sunday.
The meeting decided to run 10 two-week campaigns in all districts for five consecutive months to stem the tide of virus circulation, officials said.
Dr Imtiaz Ali Shah, focal person (technical) for Chief Minister's Secretariat, told Dawn that government was extremely upset by the presence of polio virus among the children above five years.
"The WHO says that the virus emerges at the last stages of the polio eradication campaigns. For example, India had recorded polio virus in 90 per cent people above 60 months one year before it was declared polio-free," he said.