The Minister of Health Announces the Discovery of Two Polio Cases in Deir Ez-Zor and the Launching of an Urgent Response Campaign.
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Today, Minister of Health Mosab Al-Ali held a press conference in the presence of the representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Syria, Caroline Clarenval, the representative of the United Nations Children ' s Fund (UNICEF) in Syria, Merchel Relanio Arana, the director of primary health care, Mohamed Al-Salem, and the director of communicable and non-communicable diseases, Yasser Farouh.
The Syrian Ministry of Health announced that two children in the Mayadin region of Deir ez-Zor have tested positive for the polio virus, and that an emergency response and vaccination campaign is being accelerated in coordination with the WHO. In the first campaign, more than 34,000 children under the age of 5 were vaccinated.
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