KABUL, March 13 — Afghanistan has launched its annual polio inoculation campaign aimed at reaching 9 million children, the health ministry said today, the second year in a row...
KABUL, March 13 — Afghanistan has launched its annual polio inoculation campaign aimed at reaching 9 million children, the health ministry said today, the second year in a row the vaccination drive has taken place under Taliban rule.
Nek Wali Shah Momin, director of Afghanistan’s National Emergency Operation Center for Polio Eradication, said many more areas could now be reached since the Taliban took over and fighting stopped. The EOC is led by the health ministry and includes international agencies including the World Health Orgnization and the U.N. children’s agency.
In areas where vaccination teams had to travel longer distances, Momin said authorities had required female staff to have a male chaperone. He said they had recruited and trained male family members of the female vaccinators to join the teams’ vaccination efforts.
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