UNICEF renews its partnership with the Lebanese Red Cross to reach children with missed essential routine vaccines

UNICEF renews its partnership with the Lebanese Red Cross to reach children with missed essential routine vaccines

NNA - UNICEF and the Lebanese Red Cross renewed their collaboration agreement to bridge children’s immunity gap by identifying and vaccinating more than 150,000 missed children at community level and delivering comprehensive health and nutrition services.

 “Vaccines are the world's safest method to protect children from life-threatening diseases and our partnership with LRC is to make sure no child is left without their essential routine vaccination, regardless of where they are,” said Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF Representative in Lebanon. “Three years of devastating crisis in Lebanon have affected the national immunization coverage. We need immunization to catch-up the missing children or we will inevitably witness more outbreaks, more sick children and greater pressure on already strained health systems.”

 

“As part of its response to the crisis in Lebanon, the Lebanese Red Cross, through its extensive network all across Lebanon, is working with UNICEF and the Ministry of Public Health to provide free vaccination to children,” Said Georges Kettaneh, Secretary-General of the Lebanese Red Cross. 

 

The UNICEF partnership with LRC aims to reach and vaccinate 150,000 missed children and adolescents. This partnership will support the ministry of public health (MoPH) in strengthening the immunization program and ensure that missed children are linked back to the vaccination programme. The vaccination services