Female polio worker killed in Chaman
Police started a search operation to find the criminals and polio campaign was temporarily suspended
QUETTA (Dunya News) - One female polio worker was killed and other injured when two men on a motorcycle attacked a polio team in Chaman.
The dead body of killed polio worker was shifted to hospital for postmortem while injured was rushed to hospital for medical treatment.
According to Dunya News sources, two men on a motorcycle attacked a polio team in Chaman’s Sultanzai area, which resulted in Nasreen, a 35-year-old polio worker being killed.
Another polio worker, 24-year-old Rashida was seriously wounded in the attack. She was shifted to a hospital in Quetta for immediate treatment.
Police said they have started a search operation to find the criminals and polio campaign was temporarily suspended in Sultanzai.
It is worth mentioning that Chaman is adjacent to Afghan border and a headquarter of Qila Abdullah. This district comes in the list of high risk areas due to presence of polio virus in the environment.
Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a crippling childhood disease caused by the polio virus and preventable through immunization. Affecting mostly children under the age of five, polio can lead to irreversible paralysis.
Country-wide anti-polio eradication was launched in the country on April 23.
The country continues to battle polio for the past several years and is close to completely eradicating the disease. The number of cases declined from 306 in 2014 to 54 in 2015, 20 in 2016 and eight in 2017. In 2018, 12 cases were reported.
A country must have no cases for three consecutive years in order to be considered to have eradicated polio by the World Health Organization.
