Two police officers escorting polio
vaccinators in Bannu- a district of Southern KPK were shot dead; in Lahore two polio workers were badly wounded in a knife attack; in Chaman: a district in Balochistan, a female polio
vaccinator Nasreen was shot dead by unknown gunmen and another female worker received critical injuries.
"Not even icy waist-deep snow will stop this polio
vaccinator from protecting the health of children in Pakistan.
'The big challenge is you have got to get a
vaccinator to visit every village in Punjab once a month,' said Fenton Whelan, a British-funded consultant on the project.
""We want to expand immunization program in every village of Balochistan and yet each
vaccinator is covering 760km area and administrating children with vaccination."Talking on the facilities provided to the program
vaccinators Rehmat Baloch said, keeping in mind environmental values, we have provided special vehicles to our staff and 426 ILR solar while 36 Electrical ILR systems were also provided.
A team comprising at least one
vaccinator, an assistant, and two social mobilizers staffed each vaccination site.
This strategy calls for deep local knowledge to anticipate when a child will return, so that a
vaccinator can be there.
THE OFFICE of the Chief Nurse has advised that a standing order is needed for student nurses on clinical placement to be able to administer vaccines under the direct supervision of an authorised
vaccinator. This guidance replaces one issued in August 2013, that stated a standing order was not required in this situation.
Two attackers fired bullets at the
vaccinator as he came out of a health centre in Shabqadar district, around 30 kilometres from Peshawar, the main city of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
We have more than 100
vaccinators at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and Calderdale Royal Hospital and our theatres matron Sandra Senior has been a
vaccinator for the past few years with an amazing record of delivering more than 200 jabs during each campaign.
Three months ago, a 16 years old
vaccinator was killed by unidentified gunmen in Marjah district of the province.
To gain access to Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan, physician Shakil Afridi posed as a polio
vaccinator for the CIA, with a team vaccinating neighborhoods against hepatitis B in Abbottabad.
Study unit of this survey was Public Sector EPI clinic and study subject was
vaccinator of the said clinic.
vaccinator - a medical practitioner who inoculates people against diseases