Provinces, SANA – A polio vaccination campaign was launched on Sunday targeting children in hard-to-access areas and areas where vaccination coverage was less than 80% during previous campaigns.<\/p>\n
The five-day campaign is launched by the health directorates in a number of provinces through mobile teams.<\/p>\n
Ramez Orfaly, Head of the Health Directorate in Damascus, said that the campaign targeted about 60,000 children under five-year-old in places where new arrivals from the eastern region are residing and in hard-to-reach areas that were not covered in last October’s campaign and neighborhoods that did not reach 80 percent coverage according to the neutral assessment of last month’s campaign.<\/p>\n
According to Orfaly, the vaccines used in the campaign are bivalent oral polio vaccine for all children under five years and the poliovirus vaccine for children between the age of 3 months and 2 years.<\/p>\n
He added that the campaign will be carried out via mobile teams only, adding that 50 teams of 164 health workers will participate in the vaccination process.<\/p>\n
In Damascus Countryside, the campaign targets about 90,000 children and will cover Eastern Ghouta, Jaramana, some neighborhoods of Qtaifa and al-Nabek, Qatana, al-Drosha, Erbin, Jdaidet Artouz and some of the villages of Barada Valley.<\/p>\n
More than 31,000 children will be vaccinated within this campaign in the central Homs province.<\/p>\n
In the northern Hasaka province, the campaign is targeting 38,000 children through mobile teams in the hard-to-reach areas in al-Shadadi and its countryside.<\/p>\n
M.al-Frieh\/H. Said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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