Today .. The launch of a second round to vaccinate 5 million children against polio

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Health
Ministry launches today, Sunday, the second round of comprehensive
spring campaign of vaccination against polio vaccination targeted five
and a half million children across the country.


The director of the Expanded Programme on Immunization in the ministry,
Dr. Moataz Mohamed Abbas told (Center Brief for the Iraqi Media
Network): that the vaccine used in the campaign was imported from
international companies sober and was examined in the laboratories of
control center and Pharmaceutical Research affiliated to the ministry,
calling on residents to the need for cooperation with التلقيحية teams
and contribute to vaccinate their children to increase their immunity
regardless of the position of the previous Altgayha them.


He added that the campaign will last for five days and targeted
vaccination nearly five and a half million children nationwide under the
age of five years old, pointing out that the ministry was formed nearly
11 thousand band Tgayhah them fixed in all health centers and mobile
and a mechanism to move from house to another to vaccinate children .


He said Moataz that the ministry did not register any new cases of
polio 12 years ago where they had recorded the last case of the disease
in the year 2000 serves as a complete record of the ministry and the
Expanded Programme on Immunization, which is implemented, stressing that
the ministry is continuing the implementation of campaigns التلقيحية to
raise the proportion of vaccine coverage, including oral polio vaccine
to children under the age of five.


In the same context, said Unit Director immunization at the Department
of Primary Health Care in the Department of Health Rusafa Dr. Faten
Nasser that the department has prepared a comprehensive plan to start
vaccination campaign of children aged under five years of age, where the
plan aims to maintain a free Iraq from this disease, eye that the
number of children covered by the vaccine in Rusafa of 681 thousand and
395 children.


She pointed to the formation of the circle more than 700 band to
participate in the second round of the campaign, which starts today,
stressing that the vaccine was examined and an importer of the origins
of global sober, telltale to create the circuit supplies the
implementation of the campaign, an advocate with the kids to cooperate
with mobile health teams and fixed health centers to vaccinate their
children with this oral vaccine regardless of previous doses.


Moreover said Director of the Division of Health Promotion in the
Department of Health Karkh Dr. Hiam cactus Sebti's (Center Brief for the
Iraqi Media Network) that the aim of the campaign is to maintain a high
level of coverage of all vaccines in general and polio especially urged
families to adhere to the table Altgayha by raising awareness community
on the importance of vaccines in the primary health care centers and
combat rumors against vaccines, as well as to strengthen the partnership
with government institutions and non-governmental organizations and
civil society actors in society to mobilize awareness about the
importance of vaccines.


At the same level UNICEF carried out late last month campaign Tgayhah
against measles and meningitis are covered by the Syrians in Dumez camp
in the Kurdistan region.


The organization's representative in Iraq, Dr. Marzio Babila in a
statement carried by the organization: The measles and meningitis are
مرضان severe infection and have long lasting effects on the children it
is necessary to make sure that kids who are going through difficult
times to have a chance for development in good health, pointing to
vaccinate more than 19 thousand children during the campaign.

The FAO data indicate recording 332 cases of measles since December of last year in the refugee camp of Dumez Syrians.

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