All heroes don’t wear capes: Farhan Saeed shares plight of polio workers in Pakistan
Actor praised the efforts of a team of women walking in blankets of snow to deliver the vaccine
A five-day national polio immunisation drive had initiated on January 11 to vaccinate over 40 million children under the age of five across the country.
But on January 12, a security officer was martyred in a gun attack on a polio team in Karak. According to the DPO, the polio team was unhurt in the attack but the officer providing security was shot dead. On the same day, people from Batwar had requested local authorities to provide them with internet services in exchange for their permission to administer polio drops to their children.