Polio vaccination workers killed Pakistan - With Africa still at crisis with the Ebola outbreak, another part of the world is dealing with another deadly disease. Aside from the disease, gunman have been killing polio workers in Pakistan. What has led to such acts of violence?
The polio crisis in Pakistan has deepened with more cases emerging and not to mention more killings. Polio vaccination workers killed in Pakistan have gone up in numbers this week. Four polio workers were gunned down in Quetta. Three others have sustained severe injuries. According to reports, the polio workers were attacked by two men riding a motorbike.
"Two men on a motorcycle intercepted the van and shot the occupants using a handgun," states a police officer at the scene.
"There was going to be security with this team before they went in and started their work. However, no one could have thought that this team would be intercepted," says Ayesha Raza Farooq, the national coordinator of Polio Eradication in Pakistan in a report by BBC.
Due to the latest case of polio vaccination workers killed in Pakistan, efforts of anti-polio in the province of Quetta have been suspended momentarily. What is the reason for such violence? The latest action of polio vaccination workers killed in Pakistan is simply a mix of political chaos and refugee displacement.
Other attacks linked to polio vaccination workers killed Pakistan is the Taliban splinter group. The said group claims that such vaccinations against polio are "dangerous to health and against Islam."
Putting aside the polio vaccination workers killed Pakistan, the number of polio cases in the country has already reached 246. This number is double for the total cases recorded in the year 2013. 136 of the identified cases have been noted in the troubled areas of Afghanistan. Such areas are stronghold camps of Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
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