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3000 children in Dashtestan receive polio vaccine

According to the Mehr reporter, Ehsan Darban Malek added in a group of reporters on Sunday afternoon: According to the statistics recorded in the Sib system, we have three thousand and nine children under the age of five, nomads and foreigners in the city, and we expect more than 90 in the supplementary polio vaccination plan. The percentage of these children under the age of five should be vaccinated against polio.

The Deputy Director of Health of Dashtestan Health Network stated: One of the most important goals of this project is to identify the population of nationals living in the regions and check their immunization status, check the vaccination card of nationals and refer the deficiencies of national children's immunization program to the covered centers.

Darban Malek said: Mobile health teams have been formed to quickly carry out additional polio vaccination in hard-to-reach nomadic areas as well as densely populated areas of foreign nationals.

The Deputy Director of Health of Dashtestan Health and Treatment Network stated: The annual supplementary polio immunization operation is carried out based on the recommendations of the World Health Organization in order to maintain the great achievement of eradicating this disease and to minimize the risk of re-entering and recirculating the polio virus, and its first stage is 15 It will be performed until January 17, and the next one will be on February 27-29.

Source:mehrnews

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