INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan&s (IEA) Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Saturday rolled out a nationwide measles vaccination campaign
and hopes to reach at least seven million children.Public Health Ministry officials said the campaign will run for 10 days and that
vaccination teams have been set up at mosques, schools and health centers.&Mobile measles vaccination teams have come to mosques, schools
Please vaccinate your children between the ages of nine months and five years for free,& said Qalandar Ebad, Public Health minister.Sharafat
Zaman, the spokesperson of MoPH meanwhile said the aim of this campaign is to save the lives of children who are exposed to measles and
emphasized that the vaccine will help to prevent deaths caused by measles among children.&In this campaign, about seven million children
will be vaccinated throughout the country, which covers 10 days, and its goal is to eradicate measles,& said Zaman.According to doctors,
measles is highly contagious, and on average, each person with this disease infects fifteen other healthy people.&If children get measles,
it causes all family members to be infected
Therefore, we recommend families to vaccinate their children,& said Munir, a doctor.A number of families are happy with the start of the
campaign, but say in some cases, despite the use of the vaccine, their children have been infected with this disease.The post 10-day measles
vaccination campaign rolled out across Afghanistan first appeared on Ariana News.
