A nationwide five-day polio vaccination drive was launched on April 22, 2019. Children were given the vaccine in one school in Peshawar made a complain of nausea and abdominal pain. They were dashed to hospital and were discharged after treatment. Through social media, the false news was spread that a large number of children had lost consciousness after being given the vaccine. This triggered alarm amongst parents, who rushed 40,000 children to hospitals entire Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The children afterward were found to be all right and vigorous. In KPK province where scheme ideas emerging from religious extremists in the past claimed that the polio vaccine was a device to render children infertile. The before vaccination public education effort appeared to be obvious by its absence. The response of the authorities, who mixed up the discovery of the false social media video supplier to some marvelous collusion, was not sensible under the environment. The authorities went into full swing to assert some far reaching plot against the vaccination campaign, by some unknown political wing. Social media may have had its large part to play in spreading needless rumours and fears that worsened the situation. The fear is that private schools have passed charge to administering the vaccine in homes rather than schools, in the presence of parents. The polio vaccine has demonstrated much efficient nationwide that it enjoys about hundred percent success rate in eliminating the paralyzing disease which, if not resolved in time, can give rise to paralysis and even death in children. Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria are the merely three countries in the world where the polio virus has not been thoroughly eradicated.
On the first incident in the background of Pakistan, the government has abandoned the post publicity. The National Emergency Operation Centre for polio, Islamabad, issued a red vigilant to all the provinces ordering them to halt the anti-polio publicity all over the nation to safeguard about 270,000 polio field staff from attack. A good number of children were forgotten during the drive ending on Friday. Subsequently the Peshawar occurrence, the dubious and menacing situation for the battle front polio workers has risen and there is need to rescue the programme from moreover large harm. The national anti-polio programme had endured a large disappointment owing to regular attacks on polio teams in several constituent of the country, proposing the federal government to discontinue. The action was carried consequently the Peshawar incident in which a notorious crowd set on fire government health facility and the murder of a woman polio worker in Chaman, side by side attacks on staff in Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab in recent days. Because of fear of pitiful vaccination coverage of about 40 million targeted children across the country because of security dangers and attacks on polio workers. Within Punjab entirely it was by no means before that about 700,000 children were either closed or their families to get their children vaccinated, placing lives of so many children in danger of facing the paralyzing disease, during the last four days of the drive which started on April 22. Example of parents’ rejection to permit health workers to manage anti-polio drops to their children accelerated by 85 percent in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after rumours relating to the reality of the vaccine fury across the province. Throughout KP, approximately 700,000 families turndown to vaccinate children, while in the past anti-polio push which was held past month the number of rejection cases was 57,000. This was due to the frightening increase in the number of rejection cases to rumours circulating against the vaccine that is operated to hinder the virus. In Peshawar solitary the number of refusal cases increased by 79 percent as about 164,000 out of 800,000 families turned down to allow health workers to administer anti-polio drops to their children. Due to widespread rumours against the vaccine, anti-polio campaign had to be deferred in 24 union councils of Peshawar. This is the greatest number of refusal cases stated in an anti-polio publicity. Now the authority concerned will come up with a new design before starting another anti-polio campaign, which will be held in June. The rumours have revealed children to the danger of paralyzing victims of the polio virus. The competent authorities will take local and religious leaders, as well as members of the civil society, in order to appease the fear and misunderstanding of parents relating the vaccine. Panic over rumours against anti-polio vaccine spread throughout Peshawar earlier this week after reports that 75 students at a school in Badhber ? grumbling of headaches, nausea and abdominal pain seemingly after being administered the anti-polio vaccine were admitted to Hayatabad Medical Complex. Soon after, doctors began freeing them, telling they were in sound condition. Scared parents continued taking their children to hospitals for checkups till late at night. Few 300 children visited Lady Reading Hospital and mosques spread the rumours by issuing warnings over their loudspeakers to not get children vaccinated, and that those who had must reach hospitals to evade response. Most children were released after treatment. In Charsadda about 800 children were admitted to hospital. Family members and area residents resorted to turmoil in challenge against the occurrence. They rack and ruin the doors and windows of a hospital during their protest, set a Basic Health Unit in the area on fire and held polio workers prisoner for some time.