[Tolo News] According to the Kandahar Director of Public Health Abdul Qayoum Pakhla, three cases of positive polio...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
have recently been registered in Panjwayee and Dand districts and Kandahar city .
Reports indicate that the disease was spread by residents of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
and Uruzgan provinces, who have been displaced to Kandahar.
"The disease has spread through contact with kids of displaced families," Pakhla stated.
"There are very limited cases. We are planning to resolve the issue by meeting with the locals. Districts like Ghorak, Nesh, Shorawak and some other insecure districts are the places where vaccinations cannot be implemented," he added
A polio vaccination campaign is ongoing in 11 districts of the province. But due to insecurities and lack of health employees, the program has not been implemented in some parts of these districts.
Residents of Kandahar criticize the Public Health Directorate, adding that campaign vaccination is only implemented in the districts near the capital of the province and that their kids have not been vaccinated in the past few years.
Two years ago, there were no signs of polio in the province and the recently registered cases have created apprehensions among Kandahar residents who have called on the government as well as anti-government forces to allow vaccination employees in insecure areas. Earlier, World Health Organization (WHO) had also asked all sides involved in the conflict to stop preventing polio campaigns in insecure areas.