Review on "Polio in Pakistan: Drop of 70% recorded this year"

"Polio in Pakistan: Drop of 70% recorded this year" - Is this enough?

Polio is a highly infectious disease that can be transmitted through fecal-oral route with poor hygiene or oral-oral route with drinking contaminated water. Pakistan is still one of the nations that has cases of polio reported each year. According to BBC, Pakistan and Afghanistan report the highest number of polio in the world (BBC, 2015). This news reflects on the decline of polio cases in Pakistan and how Pakistan's Prime ministerial polio adviser Ayesha Raza, details the success of this reduction.

BBC has claimed that as of June 3, 2015, there has been only 25 cases of polio reported. The main concern is how infants are not being allowed to become vaccinated against polio and the cause of this, as mentioned by BBC is how "militants have targeted health teams" who seek to vaccinate children. 

On the other hand, Pakistan's Prime ministerial polio adviser Ayesha Raza, elaborates on the decline of polio cases by valuing the army for its help and protection of vaccination teams in order to immunize infants of Pakistan. Raza further emphasized on how the officials have "access to populations in Waziristan after more than two years. [They] have also now penetrated some formerly no-go zones in Karach". This is a great news not only for children of Pakistan but also everyone around the world because immigration can allow for transmission of the disease to other nations who do not have their children vaccinated against poliovirus, either due to poverty, social threat, or personal belief. However, I feel that this is unjust for children of Pakistan. We have the choice to live freely, and recently, the option to vaccinate our children, while children in Pakistan and Afghanistan are forced to remain unvaccinated. I believe that whether a child gets vaccinated or not should be the decision of someone besides the parents or the guardians, and the officials are acting very quick in Pakistan, It should not take 2 years for the officials to gain access and immunize children of Waziristan. This should be a matter of national unification to immunize these children. Infants and young ones cannot defend themselves against harsh militants and it should be the responsibility of everyone in the world to look after them as we wished for someone to look after us if the situation was reversed. 

Source:
Polio in Pakistan: Drop of 70% recorded this year. (2015, June 3). BBC News. Retrieved June 10, 2015, from http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32996624