Pakistan
Pakistan: Polio vaccination team members, including woman, tortured in Rawalpindi
A female vaccination team member belonging to the Punjab Health Department was tortured and deprived of her belongings by a group of employees of Cantonment Board Chaklala in Pakistan's Rawalpindi city recently.
They were reportedly booked by the police on the complaint by the victim.
In the FIR, the woman polio worker claimed apart from torturing her the attackers abused and threatened male members.
Khadija Bibi, lodged an FIR with the Civil Lines police, saying that they were Punjab government health department employees and were performing the duty of giving polio drops and after their duty, they returned to Chaklala Cantonment Medical Center in Dehri Hassanabad, reported Dawn News.
She was quoted as saying by Dawn News that on reaching the medical centre, as many as 40 employees of Cantonment Board Chaklala broke into a store room which was allocated to the health team and took away their belongings, including polio vaccine and a bag containing Rs15,000 cash and medicines of her child.
She even alleged in the FIR that when she was walking inside to bring medicine, they misbehaved with her, slapped and pushed her away.
She said all her belongings were taken away.
She urged the police to take action.
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