Within the national vaccination days campaign .. great efforts to reach remote rural areas in Al-Hasakeh

Al-Hasakah-Sana

The efforts of those in charge of the National Immunization Days campaign and the follow-up of dropouts in Al-Hasakah focus on reaching children in remote rural areas, in addition to children in the city centers and towns scattered in the governorate.

The Director of Health, Dr. Issa Khalaf, said in a statement to SANA's correspondent that the remote areas in the countryside fall within the priorities of the Health Directorate to reach the largest number of these children and vaccinate them against various diseases and to ensure their physical safety in addition to the children in temporary residence centers.

Dr. Khalaf pointed out that the vaccination plan in the current campaign targets about 20 thousand children, more than half of whom are in the governorate's countryside and temporary residence centers, and for that 39 mobile health teams have been allocated with transportation and cooling for the vaccine to ensure its medical effectiveness in addition to providing the vaccine for children through 39 centers. There is a health spread in the governorate, pointing out that the number of vaccinated children is about 14 thousand children to date, with an implementation rate of approximately 70 percent.

For his part, the vaccination official in Al-Hasakah Health, Badiwi Al-Ghurair, stated that the implemented campaign provides vaccination for children through health centers located within cities and administrative units, in addition to the great role that mobile teams play to reach children in rural and remote areas where there are no health centers in order to immunize them and work to reach To the largest possible number of children and vaccinate them.

The people in the governorate countryside expressed their thanks for the government efforts made on the health side and for the continued implementation of vaccination campaigns targeting their children, and the mobile medical teams bothering to cut long distances in remote villages and far from city centers to reach children and vaccinate them against various diseases.

On the fifth of this month, the Ministry of Health launched the National Immunization Days campaign to follow up on children who have dropped out of vaccination, which will continue until the 13th of this month.