Pakistan, April 14 -- Federal Minister for National Health Services, Regulations & Coordination Syed Mustafa Kamal on Sunday said that of the families refusing to immunise their children against poliovirus, 85 per cent of them reside in Karachi alone.

Addressing a press conference in Karachi, the heath minister said that currently, 44,000 families in the country have refused to vaccinate their children against polio. "At this moment, in Pakistan, there are 44,000 refusals, with 34,000 in Karachi alone," he lamented. "That is a figure of 85-90pc." "Of those 34,000 families refusing to vaccinate their children, 27,000 hail from District East," he added.

Syed Mustafa Kamal said that he met with five MPAs and two MNAs from District East, wi...