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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan elders have given safe passage to thousands of volunteer vaccinators immunizing children against polio in Afghanistan's violent south, a region health workers haven't worked in for months, UNICEF said Saturday.
The vaccinators are working in violent areas of Kandahar and Helmand provinces through the help of Kandahar's governor and local elders, who worked to ensure the health workers could travel safely, said Catherine Mbengue, UNICEF representative in Afghanistan.
"So far we have not had any reports of any incidents contrary to what has happened in each (previous) campaign," said Mbengue, who went with vaccinators door-to-door in Kandahar.
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