Tomorrow…. The fifth round of polio campaign in Syria.

Tomorrow…. The fifth round of polio campaign in Syria.
Polio team in Syria aims to launch the fifth round of the mobile polio vaccination tomorrow morning on Saturday, May in the liberated areas of Deir al Zour, Raqqa, Hasaka, Aleppo, Idleb, Hama and Lattakia.

The fifth round is one of six rounds in which the same children are vaccinated with vaccinating children who were not vaccinated in the previous round.
Officials of this campaigns seek to end polio in Syria after it emerged recently in Syria especially in Deir al Zour.

1.25 million Children have been vaccinated during the first round, 1.4 million children in the second, 1.41 million children in the third and 1.44 million child in the fourth. It is likely that the number of vaccinated children during the fifth round will exceed 1.44 million children.

On the other hand, and within logistic preparation frame of the fifth round, the staff sought to check refrigerating set by which the vaccine is moved in addition to the readiness of groups to overcome difficulties they faced in the previous round.

Delegates of the team have received vaccines assigned for the fifth round from the directorate of health in Gaziantep- Turkey where the team seeks to procure vaccination from the Turkish ministry of health and the Turkish Red Crescent.

It is worth mentioning that polio team came by combining the efforts of the ACU, local councils and a group of local and international non-governmental organizations under the logo of “End Polio in Syria”. The number of volunteers in the team is about more than 8,000 volunteers with the participation of more than 200 doctors.