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[DAWN] Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
Governor Eng Shaukatullah Khan administered drops to children to kick start anti-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 drive in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) on Monday.
He asked the officials concerned to ensure vaccination of every child in the tribal belt. Fata Additional Chief Secretary Arbab Mohammad Arif, Health Director Dr Parvaiz Kamal Khan and representatives of WHO and Unicef were also present on the occasion.
The governor was told that over 2,000 teams were formed to administer anti-polio drops to about 7,072,048 children below the age of five yeas in the tribal areas.
The governor directed the relevant authorities, health workers and volunteers to leave no stone unturned in reaching every child for vaccination to eradicate the crippling disease in the tribal areas.