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This is a huge benefit for the kids of NWA. they are now free from the Mullah goons and their fatwas against vaccination.
Displacement brings polio vaccination boon
By Ikram Junaidi | Hasan Mansoor
Published about 4 hours ago
In this photo taken on Friday, June 27, 2014, a volunteer gives polio vaccine to a displaced tribal boy in Bannu, Pakistan.—AP photo
KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: Taking advantage of the displacement of children in large numbers from North Waziristan due to the launch of a military operation there, health authorities have been able to vaccinate more than 192,442 previously unreachable children against polio, officials say.
“We take it as a huge opportunity to target all the children of North Waziristan Agency (NWA) who haven’t been exposed to a vaccine that could save them from being crippled for life,” a senior official in the Prime Minister’s Monitoring and Coordination Cell on Polio Eradication told Dawn.
Requesting anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media, the official said over 80,000 children were vaccinated at permanent transit points set up in FR Bannu, and around 20,000 in Hangu. The rest of the children were vaccinated in Dera Ismail Khan, Bannu and Lakki Marwat districts, he added.
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Displacement brings polio vaccination boon - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
Displacement brings polio vaccination boon
By Ikram Junaidi | Hasan Mansoor
Published about 4 hours ago
In this photo taken on Friday, June 27, 2014, a volunteer gives polio vaccine to a displaced tribal boy in Bannu, Pakistan.—AP photo
KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: Taking advantage of the displacement of children in large numbers from North Waziristan due to the launch of a military operation there, health authorities have been able to vaccinate more than 192,442 previously unreachable children against polio, officials say.
“We take it as a huge opportunity to target all the children of North Waziristan Agency (NWA) who haven’t been exposed to a vaccine that could save them from being crippled for life,” a senior official in the Prime Minister’s Monitoring and Coordination Cell on Polio Eradication told Dawn.
Requesting anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media, the official said over 80,000 children were vaccinated at permanent transit points set up in FR Bannu, and around 20,000 in Hangu. The rest of the children were vaccinated in Dera Ismail Khan, Bannu and Lakki Marwat districts, he added.
[read more on the following link]
Displacement brings polio vaccination boon - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
