MoPH, partners to mark World Immunisation Week – The Peninsula

MoPH, partners to mark World Immunisation Week – The Peninsula

Doha: The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), in cooperation with the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), the Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC), Sidra Medicine and the private health sector, celebrates the World Immunisation Week during the period from April 24 to 30.

This year’s celebrations are organised under the theme, ‘A Long Life for All’, which was selected by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The celebration aims to highlight the importance of access to vaccines and how immunisation can save the lives of community members from fatal diseases, as well as support community members and their children to obtain immunisation against vaccine-preventable diseases.

Awareness is intensified through various types of media with the aim of raising public awareness on the importance of vaccination, its vital role in eliminating contagious diseases, and increase vaccination rates. In addition, awareness messages will be displayed on screens inside several malls, PHCC centres and private clinics as well as disseminating awareness messages on vaccines on social media.

On this occasion, Dr. Hamad Eid Al Rumaihi, Director of the Health Protection and Communicable Disease Control Department at MoPH, said that vaccination is considered as one of the most successful interventions in the field of public health as they boost the immune