GENEVA (The Thursday Times) — Aalmi Idara-e-Sehat (WHO) ka kehna hai ke is saal duniya bhar mein saamne aane wale jangli polio ke 29 cases mein se 25 Afghanistan mein report hue hain, aur wahan October 2024 ke baad se ghar ghar vaccination nahin hui.
Yeh adad o shumaar WHO ki polio emergency committee ke bayan mein saamne aaye, jo Jumay ko jaari kiya gaya. Committee ki sifarish qabool karte hue WHO ke Director-General ne Jumeraat ko faisla diya ke polio virus ka bain-ul-aqwami phailao bad-dastoor bain-ul-aqwami tashweesh ki haamil sehat-e-aama ki emergency hai.
Pakistan mein 2026 mein polio ke chaar cases report hue hain, sab Khyber Pakhtunkhwa se, jabke pichhle saal yeh tadaad 31 thi. Afghanistan mein 2025 mein 21 cases report hue the. Jangli polio ab sirf in do hamsaya mulkon mein gardish kar raha hai, aur 2024 mein duniya bhar mein iske 99 cases record hue the.
Committee ne kaha ke Afghanistan ka Junoobi ilaqa “sab se zyada tashweesh ka baais” hai, jahan bohat kam bachon mein qowat-e-mudafiat hone ki wajah se virus tezi se phail raha hai.
Vaccinators darwaze tak nahin pohanch paate
Afghanistan mein polio muhimmat ab “site-to-site” tareeqe se chalayi jaati hain, jismein khandan bachon ko muqarrara vaccination markaz par laate hain. Committee ke mutabiq October 2024 ke baad se “security khadshaat ki wajah se” ghar ghar muhimmat nahin chalayi gayin, aur vaccinators mein khawateen ki tadaad bohat kam hai, khaas taur par junoob mein.
Committee ne kaha ke ghar ghar muhimmat na hone aur khawateen health workers ki kami ke baais site-to-site muhimmat aksar bachon, khususan sab se kam umar bachon, tak nahin pohanch paatin, jis se virus Afghanistan ke andar aur bahar mazeed phail sakta hai. Committee ne Afghanistan ke polio programme par zor diya ke woh poore mulk mein ghar ghar vaccination ki taraf jaane ke raaste talash kare.
Afghanistan mein khawateen ko sehat ki sahuliyaat tak rasai mein pehle hi bari rukawaton ka saamna hai, aur aise qawaneen ki wajah se jo mard doctors ko unka muaina karne se rokte hain, bohat si khawateen ilaaj se mehroom hain.
Pakistan ki pesh raft
Committee ne Pakistan mein polio ke khatme ke liye “mazboot qayadat aur aala satah ke azm” ko saraha, jismein Wazir-e-Azam Office ki shamooliyat bhi shaamil hai, aur musalsal buland report shuda coverage ka bhi aitraaf kiya.
Committee ne Peshawar, Quetta aur Karachi blocks mein pesh raft record ki, taham kaha ke junoobi Khyber Pakhtunkhwa mein, jahan badamni muhimmat mein rukawat banti hai, virus ka phailao ab bhi shadeed hai, aur Karachi ke kuch hisson mein maqami satah par phailao jaari hai. Committee ke mutabiq aane wala kam phailao ka mausam in kamyabiyon ko mustahkam karne ka mauqa hai.
Sewerage ke namoonon ki jaanch bhi yehi kahani sunati hai. Is saal ab tak 204 maahauliyati namoonon mein jangli polio virus paya gaya hai, jin mein se 128 Pakistan aur 76 Afghanistan mein the, jabke poore 2025 mein yeh tadaad 747 thi.
Aik block, aik sarhad
Committee ne kaha ke dono mulk aik hi wabai block hain, aur 2026 ke wast tak sarhad paar mushtarka phailao record kiya gaya. Committee ne sarhadi guzargahon par har umar ke afraad ki vaccination jaari rakhne aur dono programmes se naql-e-makani karne wale khandanon tak pohanchne ka mutalba kiya, jin mein Pakistan se Afghanistan wapas jaane wale baghair dastavezaat ke tarkeen-e-watan bhi shaamil hain.
Duniya ke deegar hisson mein is saal 15 September tak 20 mulkon mein vaccine se paida hone wale polio ke 155 cases report hue, jin mein se zyada tar Africa mein the. In mein se 88 cases Democratic Republic of Congo aur Nigeria mein saamne aaye.
