Summary Dozens of health workers and police have been killed in militant attacks on polio vaccination teams.
KARACHI (Dunya News) – Lady health workers left work in the absence of security measures in the Baldia town of Karachi on Sunday, Dunya News reported.
Polio eradication campaign couldn’t begin in the Baldia town of Karachi as lady health workers quit the work complaining that security facilities weren’t provided to them. The lady health workers protested against not being provided with the required security to carry out the polio campaign.
Dozens of health workers and police have been killed in militant attacks on polio vaccination teams in Pakistan since December 2012.
The World Health Organisation declared a global "public health emergency" in early May after new polio cases began surfacing and spreading across borders from countries including Pakistan.
Pakistan is one of the only three countries including Afghanistan and Nigeria, where the crippling disease remains endemic. But violence has badly hampered the campaign to stamp out polio in Pakistan, where militant groups with strongholds in tribal areas - including the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) - consider vaccination campaigns a cover for espionage.
