Attackers opened fire as the team was going to administer polio drops in Badbher. DESIGN: MANAHYL KHAN
The injured women were shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital for treatment where one woman succumbed to her injuries.
Reportedly, the female health workers were attacked despite the fact that security personnel were accompanying them.
Polio vaccination teams have been attacked by militants in Karachi, Mardan, Peshawar and other Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa districts in the past.
On December 19, the World Health Organisation and Unicef withdrew field workers owing to security threats. However, polio workers from national health bodies continued to serve despite the danger.
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One can only salute these brave, selfless ladies. As if their job isn't tough enough, we have these religious nuts trying to murder them. Pakistan would be far better in hands of women such as these than in hands of men who can only talk strategic depth, Afghanistan endagame, non-state resources and other such bull**.
One suggestion to Express Tribune: Please mention the names of each and every person who has died in this quest to rid Pakistan of polio. They are your true heroes and they must be celebrated. As a media organization, you could maintain a list - someday your country may want to celebrate her true martyrs.
Any statement from PTI ( to be govt of KPK) ? Oh wait, they are busy respecting militants!
Is killing allowed in Islam? this time UNICEF Pakistan has got biggest funding due to polio in country so let them do their job. These are poor Pakistani souls who were out to earn bread and butter. How can taliban kill them in the rein of NS