In the villages near Wazirabad in Shikarpur district, WHO health workers moved door to door through mud-brick homes and makeshift shelters in August 2026, carrying polio vaccines to children who had never received them. The effort speaks to a quiet, persistent failure — that in a world where polio is nearly eradicated, geography and poverty still determine which children are protected. Pakistan remains one of the last countries where the disease endures, and the distance between that reality and a polio-free future is measured not in miles, but in trust, access, and the willingness of communit
WHO polio team reaches remote Shikarpur villages to vaccinate underserved children
Children in remote areas lacking access to essential polio vaccination face heightened risk of infection from a potentially fatal disease.