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| Anti-polio campaign: No role left for Unicef in social mobilisation |
| 2013-03-04 |
| [Dawn] The Emergency Operational and Security Guidelines issued by the government for 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 after the killing of 15 people in 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... and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... has ended the role of Unicef in social mobilisation campaigns, officials claimed. The Unicef, which is supporting the government in polio eradication in the country, had signed a contract with the government of Pakistain and CHIP Training and Consulting (private) Limited under which the former had pledged Rs230 million to create demand for oral polio vaccine (OPV) in the 33 'high risk' districts of the country. Since last year, the Unicef had created Communication Network (COMNet) by recruiting 1,072 communication officers at the district and union council level on lucrative salaries, but the security guidelines had ended their role. "There is no role for about 204 COMNet staff recruited in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and 144 in Federally Administered Tribal Areas after the security guidelines. Majority of them received salaries for doing nothing," the officials said. The COMNet staff doesn't come under the supervision of the health department due to which they don't have any role left for them after the deterioration of security situation. |
| Posted by:Fred |