Quake doctors warn of shortage of vaccine funding

DOCTORS fanned out yesterday to immunise children in Pakistan’s earthquake zone against measles and other diseases ahead of winter, but they warned they may not have enough money to finish the job.

The campaign, launched over the weekend, aims to immunise about 1.2 million children under age 15 in Kashmir and other parts of northern Pakistan over the next two to three weeks.

Project manager Edward Hoekstra said $4 million (about half the programme’s budget) was urgently needed to meet operating costs.