Joint WHO/UNICEF Statement
18 Dec 2012
WHO and UNICEF join a Government of Pakistan and a provinces of Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in condemning a mixed attacks that have killed 6 health workers in a past 24 hours.
At slightest 6 people operative on a polio vaccination debate have been reported shot passed in several locations in Pakistan – Gadap, Landi, Baldia and Orangi towns of Karachi city, Sindh Province and Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. Those killed were among thousands who work selflessly opposite Pakistan to exterminate polio.
The Government of Pakistan and a influenced provinces have temporarily dangling a vaccination debate due to concerns over reserve of health workers.
Such attacks dispossess Pakistan’s many exposed populations – generally children – of simple life-saving health interventions. We call on a leaders of a influenced communities and everybody endangered to do their pinnacle to strengthen health workers and emanate a secure sourroundings so that we can accommodate a health needs of a children of Pakistan.
Polio is a rarely spreading illness caused by a pathogen that can means permanent stoppage in a matter of hours. Safe and effective vaccines strengthen children from a disease. Currently a illness stays autochthonous in usually 3 countries: Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.
WHO, UNICEF and all their partners in Pakistan and globally demonstrate their deepest magnetism to a families of a health workers. We sojourn committed to ancillary a Government of Pakistan and a people of Pakistan in their efforts to absolved a nation of polio and other diseases.
For serve information greatfully contact:
Oliver Rosenbauer
WHO
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Sarah Crowe
UNICEF Spokesperson
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Mobile: +1 646 209 1590
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