The Emirates Polio Vaccination Campaign in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, during the period from 2014 to the end of 2022, provided 667 million and 478 thousand and 974 vaccination doses against polio. The management of the UAE Project to Help Pakistan announced the results of the campaign that was implemented in Pakistan over nine years Going forward, pointing out that the campaign began in 2014 targeting three million children, bringing the number to 17 million targeted children in 2022. This campaign comes within the framework of the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State, “may God protect him,” and the follow-up of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court to provide humanitarian and development aid, support the health sector and strengthen its preventive programs in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Abdullah Khalifa Al Ghafli, Director of the UAE Project to Assist Pakistan, said that field efforts to implement vaccination campaigns in various Pakistani regions have been completed. With the participation of more than 103,000 doctors, observers, and members of vaccination teams, and more than 82,000 protection and security personnel, as well as management and coordination teams, their field efforts focused on distributing them to Vaccinations and vaccination of targeted children. The campaign has also allocated special vaccination teams to provide vaccinations and vaccinate more than 597,000 Afghan refugee children in 22 refugee camps. He added that the UAE seeks to implement humanitarian and development initiatives and projects aimed at protecting needy people and communities from diseases, epidemics, crises and disasters, explaining that the directives of the wise leadership in the field of supporting and developing preventive health care for children represent a civilized and humane pioneering and sophisticated model in caring for the safety of children’s lives and protecting them from negative repercussions. for diseases. He pointed out that the UAE’s polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan contributed to a high decrease in the number of polio cases.
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