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| Polio drives during Ramazan put off for want of security |
| 2014-07-19 |
| [DAWN] Security continues to be a key issue hampering the planned 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... campaigns devised by the authorities in the provincial health department in certain 'sensitive neighbourhoods' during Ramazan. Lack of security personnel for the volunteers has failed a major anti-polio drive and several parallel low-key activities that were also to kick off, it emerged on Friday. Officials said a major anti-polio campaign in parts of 'sensitive neighbourhoods' of the city's most vulnerable Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... West district had to be deferred by the authorities after the local police refused to provide them security cover due to staff shortage. Moreover, they said that the remaining coppers had been assigned to maintain law and order situation during Ramazan hence the constraint. The campaigns for Gadap, Gulshan-e-Maymar, Pirabad and Mominabad had been planned a week before Ramazan in a bid to not let the lethal virus go unchecked for the month keeping in view the fact that the country was already facing travel sanctions by the World Health Organisation for being one of three polio-endemic countries. |
| Posted by:Fred |