PESHAWAR: Dozens of protesters stormed inside a hospital in Peshawar's Masho Khel area on Monday and set it on fire after 40 children fell ill allegedly due to reaction of polio vaccine.TV footages show a large number of people gathered external the health facility.
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.Coordinator EPI Peshawar, Kamran Afridi, denied the allegations that the kids suffered due to vaccine.Reaction is much possible and the vaccine was much run outd, he further added.A spokesman of Hayatabad Medical Complicated told Geo freshs that the condition of children is much serious.
'They are suffering from nausea and vomiting.'Afridi said that measure parents who refused to get their kids vaccinated are among the protesters.He stated that measurething else could have created problems but it canmuch be vaccine.Countrywide campaignA countrywide campaign to manage anti-polio drops to children under five years of age has started nowadays.National Coordinator Polio Eradication Programme, Dr Rana Safdar said the anti-polio drive shall target 39 million children in all four provinces, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.He urged the people to cofunction with polio teams to manage drops to their children against this crippling disease.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source.
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