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Afghanistan
Daesh Prevents Polio Campaign in Three Nangarhar Districts
2015-10-11
[Tolo News] Daesh Death Eaters have reportedly stopped the national 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...
vaccination campaign from being carried out in three districts of eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province, local officials said on Saturday.

Nangarhar officials said Daesh has prevented about 46,000 children from receiving polio vaccines in the three districts.

This comes after the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) launched an anti-polio campaign across the country three days ago.

Najibullah Kamawal, the head of the health department of Nangarhar, said: "Our employees were not able to launch the campaign in Achin, Haskamina and Mina Kot districts in the province due to Daesh presence."

"Regrettably, almost 46,000 children remain deprived of polio vaccination in areas which are under control of Taliban, already there are four cases of polio in this district," head of Nangarhar health department Najibullah Kamawal said.

He also said that Daesh Death Eaters have closed ten health care centers in these districts.

"In districts where there is control of Daesh, health centers are also closed down and people there face a lot of issues," he said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke...
a number of civil society activists and Ulema members in Nangarhar said that "this is oppression by Daesh on children".

"This act demonstrated by the Death Eaters is an act of oppression against the children. We call on warring factions to cooperate with medical teams," religious scholar Maulavi Abbas said.

The Ulema members and civil society activists called on Daesh to not stop health workers from treating people.
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