Dr. Tamur Mueenuddin leads a UNICEF vaccination team

The UN children's agency has started a massive campaign to immunise 800,000 children affected by last month's quake in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

Unicef hopes to vaccinate the children against various potentially fatal diseases, such as polio and diphtheria, in two weeks.

......The senior Unicef health official in the field, Dr Tamur Mueenuddin, said it was a race against time to reach children from scattered communities in areas high up in the mountains as winter snows begin to fall.

Dr Mueenuddin said the vaccination teams could be flown to these high altitude areas by the Pakistani authorities. (See complete BBC report here.)