ISLAMABAD: On Thursday, the federal government decided to initiate the nationwide anti-polio campaign this month. According to details, the federal government has completed discussion with the provinces on the nationwide anti-polio campaign. However, the anti-polio drive will run in Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and four other provinces. Sources in the Ministry of Health said, in the […]
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Anti-polio vaccination hooligans set Peshawar hospital ablaze
PESHAWAR: Angry rioters broke down the main gate and set fire to the Mashokhel Hospital in response to unfounded claims that 40 children fell sick after being administered anti-polio drops. Dispelling rumours that the children had been given an unsafe medicine, Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) Coordinator Kamran Afridi said, “There can be no reaction […]