RASC: Following the registration of three cases of polio in eastern Afghanistan this year, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says that the spread of this virus in the environment and the movement of citizens to Pakistan has increased the incidence of polio in these parts.
Kamal Shah Seyed, the communications officer of UNICEF’s polio program in Afghanistan, told the media on Monday, May 29, that if the spread of polio in eastern Afghanistan is not prevented, it is likely to spread to other parts of the country.
UNICEF says that in order to prevent the increase in polio cases, it is going to start a campaign to fight this disease in eastern Afghanistan next month.
According to this organization, in this work, one million and 100 thousand children under five years of age will be vaccinated.
At the same time, the communications officer of the children’s paralysis program of the UNICEF office says that 10 million children under the age of five in Afghanistan are supposed to receive the vaccine in the nationwide campaign to implement the anti-polio vaccine.
In the current year, three cases of polio have been recorded in Nangarhar.
Afghanistan and Pakistan are still the only countries where polio has not completely disappeared.
