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Egypt - Launching a national campaign against polio

Laidback Al

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Launching a national campaign of vaccination against polio in all provinces

last Updated on Sunday, October 2, 2011 - 13:20 a GMT

Was launched on Sunday, the national campaign of vaccination against polio and Dr. Amr Helmy, Minister of Health visited the health office, Nasr City, on the occasion of launch of the campaign to ensure the availability of all the possibilities and baits to vaccinate children to maintain the gains made by Egypt to eradicate polio.

The campaign will run for 4 days in all provinces except Egypt governorates of Greater Cairo and Alexandria, which will continue their campaign of more than 5 days. His dream of press statements today that the cost of the campaign of 25 million pounds .. He added that vaccination against polio, which is of a house to house, apartment to apartment to reach all children, targeted vaccination is in rural areas only because of the security conditions experienced by the the country.

The vaccination in cities is through vaccination teams established in all health facilities of the ministry in addition to the teams fixed markets, clubs, train stations and the positions of passenger transport, parks and places of worship, and NGOs and the headquarters of unions subsidiary of doctors and pharmacists in the governorates as well as mobile teams, and will not be traffic from apartment to apartment in order to preserve the integrity of the health team. The minister pointed out that the campaign targeted about 11 million children on up to 5 years to raise their immunity by giving them an extra dose of the routine six doses that are given to children.

For his part, Dr. Amr Kandil, head of the affairs of preventive vaccination that will start at 8 am to 4 pm for the difference The difference fixed-mobile units will work from eight in the morning until eight in the evening all the provinces and there is no contraindications for vaccination.
The lamp that the campaign in which more than 80 thousand people including 40 thousand of the health team, noting that he was training all the teams well and provide them with about 14 million doses of the taste of polio .. also did when he called the campaign is overseen by More 10 000 Musharraf coach in addition to Teams of international bodies of WHO, "UNICEF" and other organizations.
Were also provided 40 thousand pregnant grafts in addition to cooling bags to keep them and provide more than 2500 vehicles to transport vaccination teams to their positions. The lamp should be vaccinated children, which is given free of charge to all children and the meeting will be held daily for all the supervisors of the campaign at the central level and with administrators in the ministry of health affairs directorates in the governorates to review the work of the campaign day to day. And appeals to the Ministry of Health of all mothers and parents to vaccinate their children for the prevention of polio and the preservation of Egypt's success by declaring that Egypt free of polio.

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