F.P. Report
PESHAWAR: Residents of Peshawar’s Masho Khel area set on fire the Basic Health Unit (BHU) after 40 children allegedly fell ill due to reaction of polio vaccine, on Monday.
According to private news channel report, large number of protestors gathered outside the BHU trying to enter the premises. The news channel reported that the protesters have set the Basic Health Unit (BHU) on fire.
The administration has called in the police for security.
Meanwhile, Coordinator EPI Peshawar, Kamran Afridi, denied the allegations that the kids suffered due to vaccine and adding that reaction is not possible and the vaccine was not expired.
Similarly, a spokesman of Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) told media that the condition of children is not serious. ‘They are suffering from nausea and vomiting.’
Afridi said that some parents who refused to get their kids vaccinated are among the protesters.
He stated that something else could have created problems but it cannot be vaccine.
A countrywide campaign to administer anti-polio drops to children under five years of age has started today.
National Coordinator Polio Eradication Programme, Dr Rana Safdar said the anti-polio drive will target 39 million children in all four provinces, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
He urged the people to cooperate with polio teams to administer drops to their children against this crippling disease.
