A policeman stands guard as a member of a polio vaccination team administers drops to a child during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in Karachi. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
All the arrangements, including security measures, for the drive were finalised on Monday. After the attack on polio workers in Qayyumabad on January 20, the campaign was postponed. The health officials then launched a new plan and administered drops to children in separate union councils of the city.
According to the new security plan, 24 UCs were declared high-risk areas, where polio workers completed the task on the last two Sundays with the help of police and Rangers personnel.
The campaign will be launched in different UCs of Gadap, Jamshed Town, Korangi, Landhi, Shah Faisal, Saddar, Lyari, Gulberg, Liaquatabad, Nazimabad, New Karachi, Orangi, Keamari, SITE, Bin Qasim and Malir.
Sources in the health department confirmed that all arrangements were completed. “We are ready and will complete the target successfully,” he assured. Officials of the Extended Programme on Immunisation didn’t comment on the arrangements. The campaign will continue till March 7.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 4th, 2014.
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Everyone wants to take on these terrorists.. LETS START AT THE RIGHT END!!
There are approximately 8000 sentenced prisoners waiting to be executed in Pakistani jails.. WE MUST EXECUTE THEM!!
Its not easy to get someone death sentence in PK. These are those that had such overwhelming evidence against them that could not get past the most abused judicial process.
EU had pressured Zardari to put a moratorium on executions.. since then it has been linked to continued aid and hence Sharif is not going ahead.
As long as these live in prisons, we have to spend on their security in overcrowded prisons and Taliban would always exert pressure to get them released. I say no is the best time to get started in a batch of 1000 at a time.
There are reports of many high profile prisoners in Karachi having been 'swapped out' with bonus people filling in for them, we all can guess which party they belong from...
LETS START!