New vaccine campaign in Afrin

New vaccine campaign in Afrin

Nov 29 2018

ARK News: After the completion of the measles and rubella vaccine campaign in the Kurdistan region of Afrin and benefiting thousands of Afrin children, the teams announced to launch a new campaign in the region.

The oral polio vaccine campaign will be launched on 1/12/2018 and will continue until 6/12/2018 and the vaccine is provided by the World Health Organization (UNICEF).

According to an informed source told to ARK Media Foundation that the campaign will include Afrin city and its neighborhoods, town and villages and the campaign is under the supervision of the Local Councils and t the Syria Vaccine Team.

The measles and rubella vaccine campaign were launched on Saturday 3/11/2018 in the city center of Afrin and its six towns and villages belonging to it, the campaign continued until 19/11/2018 and was also in cooperation and coordination between the Local Councils and the Syria Vaccine Team and ended without any problems during the campaign rounds.

More than 30 536 children benefited from the vaccine campaign in Afrin city center according to official sources announced by the Local Councils and the competent teams in addition to the benefit of tens of thousands of children of the town of Afrin of that campaign.

There is a campaign in Afrin City which includes all vaccines and its center located in Ashrafiyah neighborhood which named ( the center of Aid BSG), pointing out that the center is stable and will work permanently and continuously.



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