FAISALABAD, Pakistan: A member of a polio vaccination team was killed when unknown gunmen riding a motorcycle attacked a polio team in People’s Colony in Faisalabad on Tuesday.
The banned militant group Jundullah claimed responsibility for the attack on the polio team in Faisalabad on Tuesday.
In a statement, the spokesman of the militant group Ahmed Marwat said that polio workers would always be on the group’s hit list throughout Pakistan and that it would continue carrying out attacks on them.
The 40-year-old Muhammad Sarfaraz, who was a school teacher by profession but was working as a volunteer in the ongoing anti-polio campaign, became victim of an attack by miscreants.
Meanwhile, health workers assigned the job to administer polio vaccine to children have boycotted the anti-polio drive.
On Monday, a three-day special anti-polio campaign began in the Punjab province as a part of polio eradication efforts.
A total of 35,204 mobile teams are working to administer anti polio drops to 18 million children under age of five years, according to the spokesman of provincial health department.
The spokesman said that 2,254 teams have also been deputed at the entry and exit points of province as well to administer drops to the passenger children.
The provincial health department spokesman further said that all necessary arrangements are in place to administer drops at all hospitals and health centers.
