KARACHI: In response to the confirmation of 322 cases of cholera in Karachi during the past five months, the World Health Organization (WHO) has decided to acquire a cholera vaccine to immunize children in the 10 Union Councils (UCs) most afflicted by the disease.

WHO Pakistan to help Cholera Patients in Karachi

A representative of the Sindh Health Department stated, "WHO has volunteered to provide us with cholera vaccine in response  to the epidemic in Karachi. 

The majority of instances have been documented in 10 UCs in three districts where this vaccine would be administered to youngsters."

Officials of WHO Pakistan

WHO officials in Karachi also acknowledged that they were in negotiations with various biotechnological corporations for the acquisition of a cholera vaccine, adding that it would be utilized in three districts, namely South, Central, and East, where the majority of cholera cases were reported.

WHO on Karachi's Cholera 

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cholera is an acute diarrheal infection caused by the consumption of food or water contaminated with bacteria Vibrio cholera. If not treated promptly, severe dehydration and death can result from acute watery diarrhoea.

Claiming that no cholera-related deaths have been reported in Karachi to date, the health department official stated that the number of cholera cases was decreasing due to Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs), such as the provision of safe drinking water, but that patients were still being reported from 10 hotspots in the city.

WHO officials says Cholera is endemic in Pakistan

Although cholera is an endemic disease in Islamic Republic of Pakistan, an unprecedented increase in the number of cases of cholera, an acute diarrheal infection caused because of the ingestion of contaminated food or water, has been observed in Karachi, where hundreds of children and adults have been treated in public and private health facilities over the past few months.