Polio worker beaten up after insisting on administering polio drops

A heated exchange broke out after parents refused to allow a polio worker to administer drops to their child

LAHORE: A female polio worker was beaten up in Lahore on Wednesday after she insisted on administering polio drops to a child whose family refused to go ahead with the immunisation. 

According to police, a polio team comprising two female and a male worker were administering polio drops in the area, when in Taqi Mohalla area a child’s parents refused to let their child be given the drops.

A female polio worker, Rukhsana Shehzad, tried to argue with the child’s family, leading to a squabble between them.

After a heated verbal exchange. two men in the house namely Farooq and Dilavaiz started threatening the polio team and asked them to leave. Upon the polio team’s refusal to leave, the men beat up Rukhsana and forced others to leave.

Police arrested the accused after an FIR was registered against them.