Anti-polio campaign resumes in Karachi under tight security

Dunya News

The campaign will remain continue for two days.

 

KARACHI: Anti-polio drive resumed under tight security in different areas of the city including Liaquatabad, Gulberg, North Nazimabad and New Karachi Town.

 

Paramilitary and police support was provided to the polio vaccination teams after a series of attacks on medical workers.


UN agencies suspended work on a nationwide campaign to inoculate children against the highly infectious disease after nine health workers were murdered in a string of attacks in the northwest and Karachi in December.