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| Special polio drive put off for insecurity |
| 2014-01-09 |
| [DAWN] A special 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 to inoculate the children of 78 'sensitive' union councils of the metropolis has been put off because of lack of security to Jan 20, when a nationwide anti-polio drive is scheduled to kick off, officials said on Tuesday. The campaign, known as short interval additional dose of polio drops, was to be launched on Monday in the city's 78 UCs bracketed as 'sensitive' because of security reasons. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the organisers opted to abandon the plans after the local police rejected their request for security personnel. "We are not going with our plans for the campaign in the 78 UCs as per schedule because of unavailability of security cover for our teams," said Dr Mazhar Khamisani, director of the expanded programme on immunisation, Sindh, told Dawn. Officials said police did not give specific reasons for their refusal to the immunisation authorities. |
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