Health
The women who risk their lives to deliver Pakistan’s polio vaccines – The Guardian
As activists target female vaccinators, Pakistan remains one of only two countries worldwide not to have eradicated polio
Nasreen Bibi never saw the face of her killer. The 44-year-old had just finished work for the day, vaccinating children against polio in Chaman, Pakistan. As she and her co-worker, Rashida Bibi (no relation), stood waiting for a rickshaw home, a motorcycle skidded up in front of them carrying two masked men.
The men did not utter a word, but through the churned up dust that filled the air, Rashida remembers seeing the raised pistol, hearing the shots and feeling the pain as the bullets hit her hands,…
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