The Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has finished monitoring the second polio vaccination campaign in Syria, which succeeded in covering more than 815,000 Syrian children under the age of five, in co-operation with the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) and World Health Organisation (WHO).
The QRCS said in a statement Wednesday that its group was accompanied by the relevant vaccine teams in various areas of Idlib and its countryside, as well as villages in Aleppo and Hama.
The campaign is an opportunity to immunise children against polio, especially for those who haven't been reached during the many programmes that have been implemented over the past years, as well as an additional step towards the eradication of polio completely in Syria.
The statement explained that the monitoring programme carried out by QRCS's mission in the Turkish city of Gaziantep aims to ensure the safety of the vaccination process, the readiness of the centres designated for that purpose, the implementation plans, the performance of teams and supervisors, and to determine the coverage and correct errors that may occur during them.
It also pointed out that this vaccination campaign was preceded by the training of the monitoring cadres through the organisation of an intensive training course at the headquarters of the Turkish mission and in the Syrian interior in order to increase the ability to carry out the tasks of monitoring, developing and follow up in the work and document and results efficiently.
Which then leads to the monitoring of stages and follow-up process in the health centers and homes, and monitoring observations, recording and counting the results, as well as the assessment of the pros and cons to be taken into account during the upcoming campaigns.
QRCS co-operates with Unicef on a five-year partnership agreement, which includes joint action in the areas of development, prevention and humanitarian response for children in affected areas.
The campaign is an opportunity to immunise children against polio, especially for those who haven't been reached during the many programmes that have been implemented over the past years, as well as an additional step towards the eradication of polio completely in Syria.
The statement explained that the monitoring programme carried out by QRCS's mission in the Turkish city of Gaziantep aims to ensure the safety of the vaccination process, the readiness of the centres designated for that purpose, the implementation plans, the performance of teams and supervisors, and to determine the coverage and correct errors that may occur during them.
It also pointed out that this vaccination campaign was preceded by the training of the monitoring cadres through the organisation of an intensive training course at the headquarters of the Turkish mission and in the Syrian interior in order to increase the ability to carry out the tasks of monitoring, developing and follow up in the work and document and results efficiently.
Which then leads to the monitoring of stages and follow-up process in the health centers and homes, and monitoring observations, recording and counting the results, as well as the assessment of the pros and cons to be taken into account during the upcoming campaigns.
QRCS co-operates with Unicef on a five-year partnership agreement, which includes joint action in the areas of development, prevention and humanitarian response for children in affected areas.
