Yemen Won The War Against Polio Virus [Archives:1999/48/Local News]

The Republic of Yemen conducted the 1st round of its 4th NIDS as part of its polio eradication initiative. The total number of children vaccinated was 4,244,527.
3,680,686 of the children were under the age of five (99% of the target children) while 563,841 were above the age of five. This is the result of the first round. During the second round the same number will be vaccinated.
All the necessary vaccine and financial resources were distributed to all health facilities for the second round which will last from November 27th until the 29th. It is expected that the president, the vice president, speaker of the parliament and the prime minister will lend their prestige to the campaign by visiting different vaccination posts. The 1st round was very successful.
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