From the Newspaper | Peshawar | PESHAWAR, Feb 11: With the help of local elders and ulema, the administration started a three-day anti-polio vaccination drive in the Frontier Region of Peshawar on Saturday. The drive was inaugurated by assistant political agent, FR Peshawar, Naveed Akbar Khan, by administering vaccine to a child at Azam Kili during […]
As govt teams come knocking, schools face dilemma of permitting polio vaccinations
By Rabia Ali Private schools were asked to cooperate with the government teams administering polio vaccinations to students under the age of five years or go to jail. “We were harassed by the polio teams and were forced to let them administer drops to our students,” said the principal of AMI School’s nursery branch, Nasira Faiz. […]
Action ordered against families resisting drive
Excerpt from The Nation (a print publication from Pakistan) MULTAN – The district administration has decided to launch police action against those families that resist vaccination of their children against polio. According to detail, District Coordination Officer (DCO) Zahid Akhtar Zaman has directed the Health Department to lodge report against such families with the police […]
Cashing in on immunisation
By Imran Ali Teepu ISLAMABAD, July 18: The National Institute of Health (NIH) imported substandard and unregistered vaccines and syringes for its Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) from July 2005-09, evading Rs882 million in taxes by giving an impression that it was assisted and sponsored by the UN, Dawn has learnt. A 30-page report probing […]
78 percent of Pakistani children with polio were given polio vaccine
By Daniel Erickson (NaturalNews) In the last year, as Pakistan has lost favor with the US and UNICEF, polio virus has paralyzed increasing numbers of Pakistani youth, casting doubt on the good intentions of those who fight polio. To make matters worse, most of the new cases have occurred in children already vaccinated. Is the […]
