Doha: As part of the northern Syria independent vaccination monitoring programme, the personnel of Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) are monitoring a new door-to-door mobile polio vaccination campaign, under the supervision of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).
Amid strict COVID-19 preventive measures, the drive is being implemented by the Syria Vaccination Team, who are giving oral polio vaccines to a total of over 800,000 children under five years of age.
It is an attempt to reach out to those children not vaccinated during previous campaigns, towards zero polio in northern Syria.
Other tasks of the monitoring team include correcting any procedures not complying with the plan, applying the coronavirus control measures, reporting on the progress and final results, and proposing recommendations.
The vaccinators and observers move around districts and rural areas of Idlib and Aleppo, where the public health sector is failing due to the war and COVID-19 outbreak.
