A week after looting a medical caravan in Okhaldhunga bearing equipment and vaccines for the nationwide anti-measles drive, the Maoists have bombed a health post in Udaypur Gadi district which was inoculating children against the disease. Officials say the measles vaccines stored in the health post for delivery to various VDCs in the district were destroyed. The Maoists asked employees to evacuate the building, planted pressure cooker bombs at the Ilaka Health Post as well as a nearby police building and set them off, according to district health incharge, Dr Arun Kumar Das. The one-week vaccine drive in central and eastern Nepal was launched on 21 September and nearly five million children between 9 and 15 years of age will get measles injections and booster shots, as well as polio shots. The next two phases of the drive will be launched in the coming six months and some 9.5 million children will be inoculated. Each year measles afflicts 150,000 children in Nepal, and 5,000 of them die due to complications.