KARWAR: Although health department officials have been working hard to complete the Measles-Rubella (MR) vaccination drive in Uttara Kannada district , the campaign has run into trouble at Urdu medium schools in Bhatkal taluk. "We inform them that the vaccination drive is being carried out in Muslim majority countries as well. Dubbing the MR vaccination 'Modi-RSS vaccination', the miscreants alleged that the vaccine was part of a larger programme by the Centre to arrest the Muslim population in the country. We tell them that it prevents diseases in the child," said the two doctors.Health workers and doctors said that they had been prevented from administering the vaccine to children at most Urdu medium schools. The doctored video further claimed that the vaccine would decrease fertility among women, and turn men impotent.
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