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Head of the health department Dr Wazir Khan while talking to news hounds confirmed the latest detection of the polio case in the region.
He said that the case, which according to him is the first case in 2019, had been reported in Inayat Kalli area of Khar tehsil where an 11-month-old child named Javid Khan was diagnosed with the virus.
To check the presence of polio various, the official said that a team of health officials had visited the said area twice and had collected stool samples from the child.
Dr Khan said the first sample from the child was collected on Jan 21 while the second was taken on Jan 22.
He said that stool samples were then sent to the National Institute of Health Islamabad which confirmed it to be a polio case on Feb 1.
To a question, the official said that the affected child had been given seven doses of anti-polio drops, recalling that he had also been administered drops in the recent vaccination drive which ended last week.