The two-day vaccination campaign, with a target to immunize 25,414 children aged nine to 15 years in the municipality, ended on Monday with just 16,241 getting vaccinated. [break]
"We had counted on cooperation of teachers and schools for the success of the campaign but their agitation has hit the campaign badly," stated District Public Health Officer Jeevan Malla. Last year, 56 cases of measles infection were detected in Banke district.
Meanwhile, the Muslim community did not participate in the vaccination campaign believing that the government had sent the vaccines to Nepalgunj for trial before administering them on kids in Kathmandu.
The Muslim community has remained wary of government health campaigns ever since three persons died after taking medicines against filariasis.
20 injured in teacher-police suffle in Sunsari
Twenty persons were injured in a scuffle after police used force on agitating teachers in Inaruwa, Sunsari on Monday, reports our correspondent Amar Khadka.
Sixteen teachers and four cops were injured after police resorted to baton charge when the agitating teachers tried to padlock the District Education Office in Inaruwa.
Teachers Gopal Parajuli, Shambhu Yadav, and Bishnu Mehta have sustained head injuries in the brawl and have been taken to Neuro Hospital, Biratnagar, according to Jyoti Koirala, a teacher.
The irate teachers decried the police intervention and chanted slogans against Home Minister Bijay Kumar Gachchhadar, Education Minister Dinanath Sharma and District Education Officer of Sunsari Divya Raj Kattel before burning the trio´s effigies.
Meanwhile, teachers in Surkhet staged a sit-in outside the district education office Monday protesting the use of force by police on Sunday, according to our correspondent Kalendra Sejuwal. Teachers across the country have joined the agitation called by Nepal Teacher Union and Nepal Educational Republic Forum.
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