{"id":44170,"date":"2022-05-04T17:52:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T08:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/04\/its-scary-work-but-im-determined-we-will-make-pakistan-polio-free"},"modified":"2022-05-04T17:52:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T08:52:02","slug":"its-scary-work-but-im-determined-we-will-make-pakistan-polio-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44170","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s scary work, but I\u2019m determined. We will make Pakistan polio-free\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the virus returns, one frontline worker tells of her daily trials and triumphs in  the fight to eradicate it for ever<\/p>\n<p><em>Saima Hanif, 32, is one of Pakistan\u2019s frontline health workers, part of a network of volunteers and low-paid women who are key in the country\u2019s fight against polio. After 15 months of no reported cases, last week it was revealed that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/apr\/25\/spectre-of-polio-returns-to-haunt-pakistan-as-baby-boy-is-left-paralysed\">15-month-old boy had been paralysed by the polio virus<\/a> in North Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan, where Hanif works. Here, she tells her story \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was very happy that Pakistan reported no polio cases for more than a year, and I was hoping it would be among the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/15\/eradicating-polio-is-finally-within-reach-why-is-the-uk-taking-its-foot-off-the-pedal\">countries that have eradicated polio completely<\/a>. In Bangash colony, Rawalpindi, where I work, no virus was detected where it is measured \u2013 in sewage water for a year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/04\/its-scary-work-but-im-determined-we-will-make-pakistan-polio-free\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the virus returns, one frontline worker tells of her daily trials and triumphs in  the fight to eradicate it for everSaima Hanif, 32, is one of Pakistan\u2019s frontline health workers, part of a network of volunteers and low-paid women who are key in th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,346,1076,60,900,61,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-health","category-nursing","category-pakistan","category-polio","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44171,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44170\/revisions\/44171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}