Qatar Charity's vaccination campaign against polio, measles comes to an end in Syria

A child being vaccinated against measles (Pic: QNA)

Doha (IINA) – Qatar Charity (QC) has announced conclusion of a campaign to eradicate an outbreak of wild poliovirus (WPV) and measles inside Syria, which has benefiting one million children under five years of age.
QC said in a statement on Monday carried by Qatar News Agency (QNA) that the campaign, which was implemented by Qatar Charity with International Medical Corps (IMC) UK, aimed at providing vaccines against polio and measles for more than 1.4 million children, however it succeeded in increasing the number to over 1.7 million children.
The statement said the project, which costs more than seven million Qatari riyals, succeeded in eliminating the polio risk in the targeted provinces before the end of the period specified by the project, where it began in October 2014, and continued until the end of 2015.
It explained that the campaign covered seven provinces, namely Idlib, Aleppo, Hama, Hasakah, Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor and Latakia.
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