Polio vaccine drive in Pakistan hampered

Re: Polio vaccine drive in Pakistan hampered

That’s fine, but it’s not North Americans or Europeans coming to give the vaccine. The aid workers on the UN programme are overwhelmingly Pakistanis, Muslim Pakistanis at that too.

The vaccine has been tested in Pakistan, by Pakistanis and found to be safe, so Pakistanis are deciding to push the programme forward to the people.

If these people would rather listen to the local maulanas than the government of Pakistan, they should be left to let their children catch polio and be crippled. But not one rupee of Pakistani taxpayer money should be then spent to treat a child with polio in these areas, since the population clearly refused help to stop polio occuring in the first place.