Karachi: Following the murder of its volunteer to the polio vaccination drive, World Health Organisation (WHO) called off immunization operations at least in Karachi’s one neighbourhood where the incident took place on Monday evening. Umar Farooq, a resident of Sohrab Goth area, was returning back to home from Gadap Town at the end
of campaign’s inaugural day when assailants shot him in the chest some four kilometers away from a vaccination point, said Executive District Officer (EDO) Health
Dr Imdadullah Siddiqui. The victim was taken to Aga Khan University Hospital where he succumbed to the injury.
In the aftermath of the incident, the organisation had suspended its operations in Gadap Town, said WHO’s Expanded Program on Immunization Director Dr. Mazhar Ali Khamisani.
“The anti-polio campaign will continue unaffected in rest of the province
including Karachi,” he added.
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