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Official Failure Kills Hundreds of Children
It came as no surprise to Dr Zulfikar Ahmad Bhutta, a leading child expert at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, that an outbreak of measles has claimed the lives of more than 300 children in Pakistan. “The tragedy was in the offing,” he said, putting the blame squarely on the abysmally low coverage of routine immunisation against childhood diseases.
