The Ministry of Health is planning immediate action to protect children in the Ukraine outbreak of polio
Ministry of Health is currently conducting immediate steps to protect the Ukrainian the disease: "We are working with the World Health Organization and UNICEF in the context of immediate response the outbreak to stop the spread of the virus.Such actions include extensive measures to further children's oral polio vaccine (OPV). OPV vaccine is most effective to stop the spread of the virus and provide collective immunity "- said Health Minister Alexander Kvitashvili during a press briefing at the Ministry of Health. It should be noted that the spread of poliovirus cVDPV was the result of low vaccination coverage in the country since 2008. In 2014 only 49% of children were fully vaccinated from field. The representative of the WHO Country Office in Ukraine Dorit Nitsan said: "We sympathize with parents whose children now have paralysis as a result of the field. The fact that these two children were in the Transcarpathian region diahnastovano not oznaity that the virus does not spread to other regions of Ukraine. Our team of experts is already working in Ukraine and we are ready to continue cooperation with the Ministry of Health at the national and regional levels in order to stop the spread of the virus and prevent new cases of paralysis in children. " Now Ukraine is ready for vaccination of all children in the territoryher country under the plan. We provide the necessary advice from the Minister and the administration to laboratories and physicians working in the field, to properly and effectively perform localization work on this problem. The circulation of the virus threatens all unvaccinated children in Ukraine. In this connection the Coordination Group insists on strengthening epidnahlyadu throughout Ukraine, taking additional samples of all those in contact with children in Transcarpathia. It was decided to set up operational headquarters to respond and counter the spread of the disease, which invited representatives of international organizations, WHO and UNICEF. Health Ministry reminds that the vaccine for the immunization of children already in EnglisRaina. Government of Canada support for the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) purchased 3.7 million doses of oral polio vaccine, live registered in Ukraine (OPV production Sanofi Pasteur, France). The first batch of vaccine (OPV - 1.5 million doses) have already arrived in Ukraine, the other party must come soon. It draws attention to fathers Ministry of Health at a HCazhno relation to the question of immunization of children. By press-service of Ministry of Health of Ukraine This was reported in the Vinnytsia Regional State AdministrationSource: http://artlife.rv.ua/