Quake disaster: 800,000 children to be immunised

Health authorities today launched a two-week campaign to immunise 800,000 children among quake victims in divided Kashmir following concerns that infectious disease could thrive in the crowded and sometimes squalid tent camps for survivors.

Plans to move survivors from one of the many camps that sprung up spontaneously and without proper sanitation since the October 8 quake sparked a protest yesterday by about 200 survivors in the capital of Pakistan’s portion of Kashmir.