A local woman beat a part of a woman health worker in the human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization campaign in Mandi Bahauddin on Thursday.
Speech dawn.comKuthiala Sheikhan Police Department Housing Officer (SHO) Sabir Hussain Sindhu said the incident occurred at Chak 38.
He further said that LHW Ghulam Sughra was beaten by local women during a vacation campaign at the school. He added that in the attack, health workers were also thrown to the ground.
He said the first information report (FIR) has been registered in a complaint from health workers, but has not been arrested so far.
FIR of event, its copy is available dawn.comregistered in Kuthiala Sheikhan Police Station under Article 186 (Civil servants in the public functions of public officials) and 506 (Criminal intimidation punishment) Pakistani Criminal Law.
Sughra said in FIR that she was present with Chak’s team at No. 38. The complainant said when they were vaccinated among children in an elementary school, they were attacked by a woman known as Parveen, and 15 other women.
She said: “Parveen threw me on the ground and started hitting me. Other women started hitting me too. They swear to me too.”
The immunization campaign, which begins on September 17, will end on September 27.
The movement is being divided into three phases: 1 phase, operating from 15 to 27 September 2025, covering Punjab, Sindh, Azad Chamu and Kashmir, and the capital region of Islamabad; the second phase will be extended to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2026; and the third phase will arrive in Balluchistan in 2027.
The goal is to inoculate 90% of girls aged 9-14 years old in Phase 1 by the end of 2025 and maintain high coverage through routine immunization in the coming years.
