LAHORE:

A health worker was assaulted while administering the Human Papillomavirus vaccine at a government girls’ school in Chak 38, Kuthiala Sheikhan area of Mandi Bahauddin district.

According to the FIR filed at Kuthiala Sheikhan Police Station, the worker, Ghulam Sughra, was part of a mobile vaccination team visiting the school under Punjab’s ongoing HPV immunisation campaign.

She alleged that a local woman, Parveen, along with several accomplices, grabbed, punched, and verbally abused her, disrupting the vaccination process.

Police have registered a case under Sections 186 (obstructing a public servant) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Pakistan Penal Code against Parveen and 15 others. No arrests have yet been made, though investigators said efforts are underway to identify

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