The director of the Free Idleb Health Directorate said on Thursday that over 400,000 children aged between 1 day and 5 years had benefited from the last oral vaccination campaign in 2017 against polio.
The directorate said in a statement that the number of children benefiting in each district was: 62,220 in Maarat al-Nouman; 55,853 east of Maarat al-Nouman; 54,059 in Arihah; 51,315 in Atmeh; 34,717 in Harem; 57,411 in Idleb city; 28,389 in Jisr al-Shughour; and 65,502 in Saraqeb.
The directorate said that in cooperation with the Syrian Immunization Group it had launched over the last year three rounds of oral vaccination and a single round of muscular vaccination against polio.
The Free Idleb Health Directorate opened last year a number of vaccination centers, two of them in Idleb city, in cooperation with the Syrian Immunization Group, which works on vaccinating children through roving teams in villages and towns.
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