Enforcement of Travel Restrictions for Pakistani Travellers by WHO

Polio is the crippling disease whose virus in its worse form spreads rapidly infecting the people causing devastating physical damaging which lead to either temporary or permanent deformities in the body.

WHO has recently issued its latest guidelines regarding its concern over the rapid spread of the polio virus, which is infecting various other countries. The organization has proposed some travel restrictions for the people of Pakistan according to which it is mandatory for the people who are planning to travel abroad must submit their Polio vaccination certificate before leaving the country. Through these restrictions it would be ensured that people travelling to the other countries are free from this dangerous virus.

According to WHO and the Syrian Arab Republic the rapid spread of this virus is expected to escalate in 2014, thus to take major precautionary measures WHO has placed some restrictions for all those who are going to travel abroad.  From now onwards it would be the government’s responsibility to ensure that all the visitors of the country are vaccinated with OPV or IPV (inactivated polio virus vaccine before 4 to 12 weeks before travelling abroad. Besides this it also needs to be ensured that before leaving Pakistan travelers must be provided with a certificate of Prophylaxis which would serve as an evidence for their polio vaccination internationally.

The reason that the experts have become more concerned regarding this contagious virus is because those countries which were absolutely free from polio virus are now pone to the spread of this disease. Such counties involve Iraq, Syria and Somalia. Polio virus more likely attacks on children who are 5 years old or under this age. It infects their body by means of water. There is yet still no authentic cure for it and only a few vaccines prevail to counteract this intimidating disease, which are also not reliable for the severe cases.

These restrictions would stay imposed until the elevating rate of the spread of polio virus gets reduced and the infected countries are ultimately free from this disease.