More than 25,000 people refused to vaccinate their children with the anti-polio vaccines in the recently concluded three day immunisation drive in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
According to EPI in-charge Raheem Khattak, at least 25,800 parents from 19 districts of KP did not allow the health workers to administer polio drops to their children under the age of five.
Khattak said that more than 0.2 million children could not be administered the vaccine due to their unavailability at homes while about 4.2 million children were vaccinated in the three day door to door campaign.
A three-day polio immunisation drive kicked off in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province earlier this week, amid tight security.
According to the National Immunisation Database (NID) 14,705 mobile, 1,586 fixed, 737 transit and 107 roaming teams comprising of 17,135 health workers took part in the three-day drive.
The total number of cases registered in Pakistan during the current year are 32, with the last two reported in Khyber Agency.
