Wazoo agencies due to the Taliban ban on administration of 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...
drops to children.
However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
parents have developed a mechanism to ensure provision of oral polio vaccine to save children from the crippling disease.
Since imposition of ban on vaccination in the two tribal agencies in June last year, top Fata Secretariat officials and representatives of the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
' agencies have been scratching their heads to hammer out a strategy for resumption of immunisation, but the efforts have yet to bear fruit.
In the meantime, local residents have evolved their own ways to procure OPV and protect their children against the vaccine-preventable disease.
Taliban groups in both tribal agencies have linked provision of polio drops to children to cessation of US drone strikes in the area and stopped parents from vaccinating their children against polio since June 2012.
Taliban are skeptical that the US and the government might use polio campaign for espionage, arguing after surgeon Dr Shakil Afridi's involvement in the fake vaccination campaign to reach the late Osama bin Laden
... who has won the race to that place where we all eventually end up...
in Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
, it had been established that the enemies spied in the name of vaccination.
The standoff between the government and Taliban has deprived around 300,000 children under five from the administration of oral polio drops in North and South Waziristan bordering Afghanistan.
Local people said health officials could not store vaccines at the Agency Headquarters Hospital in Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
and others health facilities in North Waziristan due to reprisals by Taliban, who have cautioned to stay away from vaccination.
Helpless parents in the volatile area have left their children at the mercy of Allah.