Three-day anti-polio campaign kicks off in Quetta amid tight security
- January 20, 2014, 9:22 pm
- Breaking News
- 56 Views
QUETTA, Jan 20 (INP): Three-day anti-polio campaign began in Quetta city on Monday amid tight security.
Around 896 teams, comprising 1,792 volunteers have been constituted to administer the polio drops to 4, 48,447 children in the city.
Besides door to door campaign, the volunteers will also administer polio vaccination to the children at entry and exit points of the city, railway station, airport and bus stations.
Around 400 officials of Balochistan Constabulary (BC) and Levies have been deployed to provide security to the polio volunteers.
It is worth mentioning here that polio vaccinators in the country have been constantly attacked by the extremists during last couple of years in Karachi, Quetta and mostly in Khyber-Pakhtunkhawa.
At least a dozen government vaccinators, whose efforts are portrayed by the Taliban as a Western conspiracy, have been killed or wounded in the country , in the past three months.
