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Four Polio Vaccination Workers Kidnapped in Pakistan by Taliban Militants
In 2006 Maulana Fazlullah, or the “Radio Mullah,” started telling people on his FM radio sermons that the polio vaccine was intended to render their children impotent, a US plot.
The parents of 24,000 children, taken in by such campaigns, have refused to allow health workers to administer the vaccination.
In August of 2007, Dr. Cherag Hussain told Reuters the vaccination programme had been suspended because tribesmen had threatened to kill health aid workers.
Hoping perhaps things might have changed since, the health authorities resumed their vaccination project, only to rue their decision now.
The fate of the vaccination workers now hangs in balance.
In February last year, Abdul Ghani Khan, a chief government surgeon who was trying to allay misconceptions of the people over vaccination, was himself felled by a remote-controlled bomb.
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