A security officer accompanying a polio team was shot dead in Karak on Tuesday. The slain police officer was identified to be Junaid. Reports say that the polio team is safe and was unhurt in the attack but the officer providing security to the team embraced martyrdom in the attack. The investigation into the attack […]
Farhat Begum, a lady health worker from Mardan district, has for years been going door to door, inoculating children against the polio virus. When the Covid-19 pandemic started earlier this year, she started fretting about its impact on the beleaguered immunization campaign. “The suspension is triggering an upsurge in polio cases,” she said. Pakistan has […]
A polio vaccination team was robbed in the Shikarpur district of Sindh on Wednesday as reported by Dawn. The team was robbed by unknown gunmen who shot aerial shots. They snatched the team’s mobiles, vaccines and 25000 rupees in cash. The team was part of Sindh’s three-day long anti-polio efforts in which around 9 million […]