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Quetta anti-polio drive postponed as volunteers protest delayed payments
[DAWN] A scheduled anti-polio...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... campaign could not be launched in Quetta on Monday after vaccination volunteers refused to perform their duties saying their payments had been delayed. Anti-polio vaccination drives were also postponed in six union councils of Balochistan  ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Zhob district owing to security reasons, said an official of Balochistan Health Department who did not want to be named. Polio volunteers who refused to administer drops claimed the provincial health department was using delaying tactics as far as their payments were concerned. The anti-polio drive was launched in eight districts of Pakistain's insurgency-hit province--including Zhob, Killa Saifullah, Sherani and Lasbella among other areas. Posted by: Fred 2015-05-19 |
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