Measles elimination a provincial priority

Measles elimination a provincial priority
Measles elimination a provincial priority
Like the prefectures and provinces of the Kingdom, the provincial delegation of Health and social protection of Sidi Kacem recently announced the deployment of an extensive provincial campaign to strengthen vaccination against measles, which is part of its proactive policy aimed at limiting the spread of epidemics and strengthening the response. This initiative aims to restore child vaccination levels to observed levels, which has led to an increase in vaccination coverage rates in most urban and rural communities in the province.

With this in mind, the provincial delegation strongly encourages all families, especially parents and guardians, to promptly review their children’s medical records in health centers and private practices to ensure the administration of the required doses for measles at the age of nine and eighteen months, indicates provincial director Dr. Moha Akki, emphasizing the need to administer two doses of vaccine to children not yet vaccinated while supplementing the doses for those who have only received one. ‘only one.

As part of its communication strategy aimed at monitoring the epidemiological evolution of measles and its constant efforts to contain the spread of epidemiological diseases and protect public health, the said provincial health director, following a meeting in his office announces that it has monitored the emergence of new cases of measles in this province, suggesting a more widespread expansion of the virus.

Emphasizing the importance of this campaign as a preventive measure to protect citizens and society from the risk of measles, Moha Akki urges all parties concerned to actively participate in this operation and visit the centers to receive the vaccine free of charge, notes the same Source. And to recall that the Provincial Health Organization continues to warn of the regressions observed at the provincial level in surveillance systems and the reduction in vaccination rates, because no province is immune to the threat of measles, thus increasing the risk of an epidemic and exposing all children not vaccinated against this disease to dangers that could potentially lead to mortality.

The province of Sidi Kacem is committed to ensuring the child’s right to vaccination, this is the fruit of the High Guidance of the Supreme Guide of the Nation HM King Mohammed VI may the Almighty preserve him through the participation of Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Meryem, concluded Doctor Moha Akki.

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