Dr Ala Alwan, WHO Regional Director, meets with H.E. the President Asif Ali Zardari to discuss some of the challenges facing Pakistan's national polio programme.In his recent visit to Pakistan, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Dr Ala Alwan met H.E. the President Asif Ali Zardari to discuss the progress of, and challenges to, Pakistan’s national polio programme.
The President condemned the two recent incidents in Karachi, in which a local polio eradication worker was shot and killed and two WHO staff, supporting the implementation and monitoring of a vaccination campaign, were injured.
