{"id":206982,"date":"2023-01-16T09:12:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T01:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=206982"},"modified":"2023-01-16T09:17:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T01:17:22","slug":"pakistani-pm-launched-nationwide-polio-eradication-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=206982","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani PM Launched Nationwide Polio Eradication Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ISLAMABAD, Jan 16 (NNN-APP) &#8211; Pakistani Prime Minister, Shahbaz Sharif, kicked off a three-day nationwide polio eradication drive yesterday, as part of the country&#8217;s efforts to overcome the resurfacing of polio cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The spread of the disease could be controlled with collective national efforts. I have the conviction that all the provincial governments, along with the federal government, would continue collaborating to eradicate the disease forever,&#8221; the prime minister said, during the launching ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, Pakistan is among the few countries where polio cases have resurfaced, he said, adding that, about 20 cases of polio were reported from north-west Waziristan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The resurfacing of the cases has certainly raised concern among the partners, including World Health Organisation (WHO), and other stakeholders, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, due to consistent efforts, the emergence of new cases was restricted and controlled, and the virus did not spread to other parts of the country, the prime minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharif also expressed his gratitude to the WHO, stakeholders, related departments and law enforcement personnel, for their continuing efforts and commitments.&#8211; NNN-APP &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Jan 16 (NNN-APP) &#8211; Pakistani Prime Minister, Shahbaz Sharif, kicked off a three-day nationwide polio eradication drive yesterday, as part of the country&#8217;s efforts to overcome the resurfacing of polio cases. &#8220;The spread of the disease could be controlled with collective national efforts. I have the conviction that all the provincial governments, along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":206984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206982"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206985,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206982\/revisions\/206985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}