{"id":70780,"date":"2025-04-15T15:22:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T10:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=70780"},"modified":"2025-04-15T15:32:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T10:32:35","slug":"two-polio-vaccinators-abducted-in-dera-ismail-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/two-polio-vaccinators-abducted-in-dera-ismail-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"Two polio vaccinators abducted in Dera Ismail Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Two <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/who-extends-travel-restriction-on-pakistan-amid-polio-outbreak\/\">polio workers<\/a>\u00a0were kidnapped by unknown men in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa&#8217;s Dera Ismail Khan district on Tuesday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The abduction occurred when the polio workers were returning to their homes after a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/polio-virus-found-in-20-sewage-samples-across-pakistan\/\">training session<\/a> at\u00a0the National Emergency Polio Campaign held in DI Khan city.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police spokesperson,\u00a0Raza Muhammad and Muhammad Asif were kidnapped at gunpoint by unknown persons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The assailants stopped the coach, forcibly offloaded the two passengers, and took them away,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred before a countrywide anti-polio campaign, which will begin on April 21 to immunize 45 million children.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a five-day polio eradication campaign will begin in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on April 21.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign is set to provide polio vaccinations to approximately 6 million children across the province.<\/p>\n<p>The province health administration said on Tuesday that more than 800,000 children in Peshawar will receive the polio vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>Over 30,000 teams have been created to carry out the campaign, and 50,000 police officers will be deployed to maintain security throughout the drive.<\/p>\n<p>Health authorities acknowledged that one incidence of polio has been detected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa this year, highlighting the need for ongoing vaccination efforts.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that Pakistan&#8217;s final subnational polio campaign for the year 2024 did not meet its objective, leaving 1,122,537 children unvaccinated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Two polio workers\u00a0were kidnapped by unknown men in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa&#8217;s Dera Ismail Khan district on Tuesday, police said. The abduction occurred when the polio workers were returning to their homes after a training session at\u00a0the National Emergency Polio Campaign held in DI Khan city. According to the police spokesperson,\u00a0Raza Muhammad and Muhammad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":59327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,2],"tags":[8989,10249,27854,27855],"class_list":["post-70780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-pakistan","tag-kpk","tag-polio-campaign","tag-d-i-khan","tag-polio-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70788,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70780\/revisions\/70788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}