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| India-Pakistan |
| Polio drive to begin today |
| 2013-04-16 |
| [Dawn] More than 7.6 million children in Sindh will be targeted by over 21,000 polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccination teams across the province as part of a nationwide three-day immunisation campaign starting on Monday, officials said. As many as 33.5 million children under the age of five years across the country will be immunised in the campaign. Officials said all sorts of arrangements had been made to make the three-day anti-polio campaign a success. "We have taken all arrangements to ensure that the anti-polio drive, which will continue till April 17, will remain peaceful," Dr Mazhar Khamisani, director of the expanded programme on immunisation, Sindh, told Dawn on Sunday. He said precautionary safety measures had been planned to peacefully complete the drive in some troubled localities of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... . Those localities included Baldia and Gadap. A three-day campaign for Gadap was already conducted during April 11-13 for its 218,000 children, but teams will again go in these localities to ensure that no child was missed out. The campaign, particularly in UC-4, had been abruptly ended twice after attacks on a WHO doctor and several polio vaccinators last year. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 So true, Glenmore. I find it strange that some faction in that stew of competing interests we call Pakistain does not get behind this and provide security. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-04-16 10:30 |
| #2 You really have to give the immunisors a lot of credit for courage in this matter - getting shot or blown up is a wierd risk to face when your business is infectious disease. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-04-16 08:56 |
| #1 abruptly ended twice after attacks on a WHO doctor and several polio vaccinators last year. I'm gonna go with 2 dead, 5 injured for this round. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-04-16 08:38 |