ISLAMABAD: The Standing Committee on Health of the National Assembly has confirmed one death from monkeypox in the country.
A meeting of the Standing Committee on Health of the National Assembly was held in which Dr Malik Mukhtar Ahmed Bharath, Coordinator of the Prime Minister for Health, gave a briefing to the Committee on Monkeypox.
He said that 6 cases of monkey pox have been reported in the country so far and one monkey pox patient has died in Pakistan and he also had HIV.
He said that 69 suspected cases of monkeypox have been reported in the country so far.
National Coordinator for the Polio Emergency Operations Centre, Muhammad Anwarul Haq told the committee in a briefing that polio virus was confirmed in 335 environmental samples this year, polio virus was confirmed in 67 districts and 21 polio cases were reported.
He said that 20 districts in Balochistan, 18 in Sindh, 14 in KP, 13 districts in Punjab were affected by poliovirus, 4 polio workers were martyred during the campaign.
Anwar ul Haq said that children have been deprived of vaccination in the polio campaign this year as well, due to security reasons in Qila Abdullah in Balochistan, the campaign was affected.
