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Report of suspected polio cases in the Syrian Arab Republic - 19 October 2013 (WHO, edited)
This source is a local government. Please be aware of bias in the following article.
Hasakah province is adjacent to Deir Al-Zour province.
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Political daily issued by the Unity Foundation for Press, Printing and Publishing - Deir al-Zour
Monday 21/10/2013 - Issue Number 2291
Target 280 thousand students in Hasakah ... firing school vaccination campaign
Euphrates - Joan belt - SANA
Monday 21/10/2013
Hasakah Health Directorate began on Sunday the implementation of the vaccination campaign in the schools of al-Hasakah school and targeting children in the first grade, sixth and seventh, eighth and ninth.
He said Director of Health Hasakah Dr. Mohamed Rashad Khalaf said the campaign will continue throughout the school year and will benefit approximately 280 thousand children, were coordinated with all relevant actors to accomplish the campaign was securing all the requirements of the campaign of vaccines and human elements qualified and well-trained was prepared health centers in areas of the province to get to schools in remote villages through mobile teams.
The Ministries of Health and Education in collaboration with the United Nations Children's Fund "UNICEF" has launched a national vaccination campaign against measles, rubella and mumps in schools targeting students from sixth to ninth grade and continue until the end of the first semester.
The Minister of Health, Dr. Saad Naev in a press statement during the launch of the campaign at the School of six Sham Damascus that the campaign targeting about 800 thousand children immunized against measles, rubella, mumps and give them a supportive dose of vitamin "A".
The Health Minister said that the campaign launched under conditions of extreme sensitivity and risk where armed terrorist groups continue to prevent parents take their children to health centers to take the vaccine in some areas, in addition to continue its work of sabotage against the health institutions and vaccination centers.
Detection and Minister of Health, that as a result the current circumstances are growing risks that threaten the health of children, particularly as a result the infiltration of terrorist elements to Syria from different nationalities and some countries are still classified as areas infected with diseases which constitute predisposing factors for injury and the return of the spread of childhood diseases hazardous managed to Syria of the judiciary during the past the past such as polio or have made significant strides in getting rid of them such as measles.
Naev minister called on parents to take their children to the centers to give them the vaccine during school vaccination campaign immunized against dangerous childhood diseases and provide them with health conditions for growth, especially in light of the environmental risks of their own.
In turn, between the Minister of Education, Dr Hezwan geese that the campaign is part of the work of the Directorate of School Health and its departments in the provinces and to continually monitor the health conditions in schools and ensure the safety of children from various diseases and dissemination of health awareness of the importance of taking the vaccines on time and default risk it.
He explained that this campaign comes in conjunction with the vaccination campaign school which aims to eradicate polio and meningitis and to provide a vaccine bilateral الكهلي for sixth grade students within the framework of continued cooperation between the Ministries of Education and Health to maintain the health of children and to ensure the healthy growth of them.
The Minister of Education that the school year starting in a timely manner and provide textbooks for most of the children and the launch of the vaccination campaign today is a challenge message confirms that it will not be able to a childhood assassination in Syria.
For his part, Yusuf Abdul Jalil, Resident Representative of UNICEF, the organization appreciates the importance of cooperation between the various institutions in Syria, including the Ministries of Health and Education, including in the interest of children and their health and expressed hope that "applies the model that we see today in all Syrian governorates, especially areas that are difficult to access" .
For its part, explained Dr. Nidal Abu Rashid director of national vaccination program in the Ministry of Health that the campaign is the result of the increasing number of measles cases and low coverage campaigns 2012/2013 to 60 percent only and the presence of large numbers of children arrivals non-vaccinated and lower coverage ratios routine vaccines result of current conditions.
It is scheduled to Health Ministry launches vaccination campaign against measles and polio in the health centers and temporary accommodation centers and through mobile teams and fixed in all areas, especially high-risk in the twenty-fourth of this month after it was scheduled on the tenth of November.
Report of suspected polio cases in the Syrian Arab Republic - 19 October 2013 (WHO, edited)
This source is a local government. Please be aware of bias in the following article.
Hasakah province is adjacent to Deir Al-Zour province.
machine translation
Political daily issued by the Unity Foundation for Press, Printing and Publishing - Deir al-Zour
Monday 21/10/2013 - Issue Number 2291
Target 280 thousand students in Hasakah ... firing school vaccination campaign
Euphrates - Joan belt - SANA
Monday 21/10/2013
Hasakah Health Directorate began on Sunday the implementation of the vaccination campaign in the schools of al-Hasakah school and targeting children in the first grade, sixth and seventh, eighth and ninth.
He said Director of Health Hasakah Dr. Mohamed Rashad Khalaf said the campaign will continue throughout the school year and will benefit approximately 280 thousand children, were coordinated with all relevant actors to accomplish the campaign was securing all the requirements of the campaign of vaccines and human elements qualified and well-trained was prepared health centers in areas of the province to get to schools in remote villages through mobile teams.
The Ministries of Health and Education in collaboration with the United Nations Children's Fund "UNICEF" has launched a national vaccination campaign against measles, rubella and mumps in schools targeting students from sixth to ninth grade and continue until the end of the first semester.
The Minister of Health, Dr. Saad Naev in a press statement during the launch of the campaign at the School of six Sham Damascus that the campaign targeting about 800 thousand children immunized against measles, rubella, mumps and give them a supportive dose of vitamin "A".
The Health Minister said that the campaign launched under conditions of extreme sensitivity and risk where armed terrorist groups continue to prevent parents take their children to health centers to take the vaccine in some areas, in addition to continue its work of sabotage against the health institutions and vaccination centers.
Detection and Minister of Health, that as a result the current circumstances are growing risks that threaten the health of children, particularly as a result the infiltration of terrorist elements to Syria from different nationalities and some countries are still classified as areas infected with diseases which constitute predisposing factors for injury and the return of the spread of childhood diseases hazardous managed to Syria of the judiciary during the past the past such as polio or have made significant strides in getting rid of them such as measles.
Naev minister called on parents to take their children to the centers to give them the vaccine during school vaccination campaign immunized against dangerous childhood diseases and provide them with health conditions for growth, especially in light of the environmental risks of their own.
In turn, between the Minister of Education, Dr Hezwan geese that the campaign is part of the work of the Directorate of School Health and its departments in the provinces and to continually monitor the health conditions in schools and ensure the safety of children from various diseases and dissemination of health awareness of the importance of taking the vaccines on time and default risk it.
He explained that this campaign comes in conjunction with the vaccination campaign school which aims to eradicate polio and meningitis and to provide a vaccine bilateral الكهلي for sixth grade students within the framework of continued cooperation between the Ministries of Education and Health to maintain the health of children and to ensure the healthy growth of them.
The Minister of Education that the school year starting in a timely manner and provide textbooks for most of the children and the launch of the vaccination campaign today is a challenge message confirms that it will not be able to a childhood assassination in Syria.
For his part, Yusuf Abdul Jalil, Resident Representative of UNICEF, the organization appreciates the importance of cooperation between the various institutions in Syria, including the Ministries of Health and Education, including in the interest of children and their health and expressed hope that "applies the model that we see today in all Syrian governorates, especially areas that are difficult to access" .
For its part, explained Dr. Nidal Abu Rashid director of national vaccination program in the Ministry of Health that the campaign is the result of the increasing number of measles cases and low coverage campaigns 2012/2013 to 60 percent only and the presence of large numbers of children arrivals non-vaccinated and lower coverage ratios routine vaccines result of current conditions.
It is scheduled to Health Ministry launches vaccination campaign against measles and polio in the health centers and temporary accommodation centers and through mobile teams and fixed in all areas, especially high-risk in the twenty-fourth of this month after it was scheduled on the tenth of November.
