The Ministry of Health discussed the response plan to the polio outbreak and the developments in the vaccination campaigns in Deir ez-Zor.
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The Ministry of Health announced the holding of an extended meeting of the Committee for the Response to Polio in Syria chaired by the Minister of Health, Dr. Musab Ali, and with the participation of several central directors and district health managers, to discuss the developments in the vaccination operations in Deir ez-Zor, the developments in the field and limiting the spread of the disease and steps taken to curb the spread of the disease.
The meeting discussed the approved national response plan and the health measures needed to deal with the outbreak as a national emergency affecting public health, in addition to mechanisms to increase coordination with concerned ministries and authorities to increase the effectiveness of field interventions and unify efforts at the national level.
The Director of the Administration for Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases, Dr. Yasser Al-Forouh, reviewed the comprehensive national plan prepared by the emergency room at the Public Health Emergency Center, and explained that it is based on eight pillars that include coordination, surveillance, laboratories, clinical management, communication, vaccinations, health services, supplies, reading, community care, community participation. Government communication and information management.
The discussions focused on the importance of increasing health awareness campaigns and expanding the scope of messages addressed to parents, to encourage them to vaccinate their children and complete all prescribed doses, in a way that will increase the prevention of the virus and contribute to limiting its spread.