“The man is a trouble-maker caught red-handed on video telling children to act as though they are ill,” he said. Naseebullah seizes the opportunity to go into bat with Jim Bailey, who is visiting Karachi with the One Last Push campaign. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jim Bailey, a polio survivor from Belfast, looks on as a vaccinator immunises a child in Landhi, Karachi. Two health workers were killed in the area in 2012, and it wasn’t easy to persuade parents to allow their daughters to vaccinate street to street for 7,500 rupees. Killings of police and polio workers halt Pakistan vaccine drive Read more“There was a lot of fear, but that has got better since the community-based approach took off,” she says.

Source: The Guardian May 14, 2019 06:01 UTC