Summary The polio vaccination will be administered to around 4, 48,447 children in the city.
QUETTA (Dunya News) – Three-day anti-polio campaign started here Monday amid tight security.
Around 896 teams, comprising 1,792 volunteers have been constituted to administer the polio drops to 4, 48,447 children in the city.
Besides door to door campaign, the volunteers will also administer polio vaccination to the children at entry and exit points of the city, railway station, airport and bus stations.
Around 400 officials of Balochistan Constabulary (BC) and Levies have been deployed to provide security to the polio volunteers.
It is worth mentioning here that polio vaccinators in Pakistan have been constantly attacked by the extremists during last several months in Karachi, Quetta and mostly in Khyber-Pakhtunkhawa.
At least a dozen government vaccinators, whose efforts are portrayed by the Taliban as a Western conspiracy, have been killed or wounded in northwest Pakistan, in the past three months.
Eighty-three new cases of the disease were reported in the country last year, making it one of only three in the world—along with Afghanistan and Nigeria—where polio remains endemic.
Pakistan’s efforts to convince people living in remote regions that there’s no reason to be suspicious of polio eradication efforts was not exactly helped by the CIA running a phony vaccination program to gain information on Osama Bin Laden’s campaign in Abbottabad.
According to a report, Pakistan remains one of the few countries in the world where polio persists, a highly infectious disease transmitted via contaminated food and water. New cases have recently surfaced in tribal areas.
