Tribune News Network
Doha
The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), in partnership with Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), the Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC), Sidra Medicine and the private health sector, has initiated an awareness campaign to observe World Immunisation Week from April 24 to 30. The campaign is being conducted under the theme ‘Humanly Possible: Saving lives through immunization’.
The campaign aims to underscore the significance of vaccines and their role in safeguarding the lives of community members against vaccine-preventable diseases, the complications of which can be fatal. Additionally, it seeks to support community members in enhancing immunisation coverage against preventable diseases for both themselves and their children.
Awareness messages about the significance of vaccinations will be posted on all social media platforms, as well as enhancing awareness among visitors of a number of primary health care centres, private centres and clinics.
The MoPH, in cooperation with its partners, provides free and high-quality vaccination services in various regions of Qatar. The routine vaccination schedule adopted in Qatar offers protection for children from more than 16 diseases. The ministry has adopted a system of combining vaccines to reduce the number of doses received by the child while maintaining the same level of protection and effectiveness.
Vaccinations are provided in the country for all age groups, with special attention given to newborns, children, adolescents, adults and the elderly, as well as pregnant women and other vulnerable groups.
Vaccinations are provided in the country for all age groups, with special attention given to newborns and children. Achieving high immunisation coverage has contributed to enhancing the health of the population of Qatar and eliminating many communicable diseases. This is achieved through a comprehensive healthcare system that relies on a proactive preventive approach and enhances people’s immunity through immunisation.
The Seventy-third World Health Assembly adopted a decision endorsing the new global vision and overarching strategy for immunisation, Agenda 2030. This vision, developed by WHO and its immunisation partners, calls for expanded access to vaccination at all stages of life as one of the strategic priorities of this new decade.
