If confirmed, this would set back the efforts of WHO and health partners to protect the children of Deir Ezzor from preventable childhood diseases, including polio.
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世卫组织和当地合作伙伴已经加强应对今年3月以来影响到阿拉伯叙利亚共和国48名儿童的脊灰疫情。
WHO and local partners have intensified efforts to respond to an outbreak of polio that has affected 48 children in the Syrian Arab Republic since March this year.
“WHO has made strenuous efforts in cooperation with health authorities to deliver vaccines to protect the children living in these areas from disease,” said Elizabeth Hoff, WHO Representative in the Syrian Arab Republic.
“Until a new cold room is built and the required cold chain equipment -- including solar fridges, cold boxes and vaccine carriers -- are delivered, this will delay the implementation of routine immunization for vulnerable children in the area,” Hoff added.
WHO has supported 23 polio campaigns since the first outbreak in 2013 and helped to establish 1,148 sentinel sites across the country, of which more than 35% are in hard-to-reach and besieged areas, including al-Mayadeen in Deir Ezzor Govenorate.
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代尔祖尔省的最后一次脊灰疫苗接种活动覆盖了252768名0-59个月龄儿童。
The last polio vaccination campaign in Deir Ezzor reached 252,768 children aged 0-59 months.
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世卫组织召开突发事件委员会关于寨卡病毒与已观察到的神经疾患和新生儿畸形增加问题第三次会议
WHO convenes 3rd meeting of Emergency Committee on Zika and observed increase in neurological disorders and neonatal malformations