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PESHAWAR: Polio specialists in a few parts of Khyber Agency declined to immunize youngsters toward the begin of a three-day drive beginning Monday (today) with no less than 116,000 kids liable to be immunized in the tribal locale. 

Polio specialists in a few parts of Khyber declined to continue with the roll over non-installment of stipends from the past three crusades, sources said.

Specialists in a few ranges of Landi Kotal and Jamrud have likewise declined to lead the immunization drive, refering to non-installment of their past duty.

Then again, powers said that the trusts however discharged had been stolen at the nearby level, including that the matter was being researched.

Dr Sarfaraz Afridi, organizer for the polio inoculation drive in Khyber Agency, said that the installment had been discharged however had been falsely withdrawn at the nearby level. He included that the political organization and concerned powers have been asked to test into the matter.

Two days prior, an alternate polio case had been accounted for in Khyber in a year and a half old female youngster from the Akakhel territory of Bara.

The administration's disappointment to connect with unvaccinated youngsters has effectively taken up the aggregate number of polio cases in Khyber to 46.

Khyber additionally has the most astounding number of reported polio cases after the fretful North Waziristan Agency. Also, a late World Health Organization (WHO) report said Pakistan was in charge of almost 80 for every penny of polio cases reported all inclusive.

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