The Ministry of Health launched a new phase of the national immunization campaign, specifically targeting students aged 12-17 years and their families.
The campaign aims to encourage parents to get their children double-vaccinated as part of the preparations for the second semester’s in-person education, which begins next Sunday, to protect them and their families from spreading the coronavirus. The campaign promotes educational messages in partnership with the media using a variety of promotional methods.
The ministry underlined the importance of receiving the vaccine for students and raising awareness on its importance, underscoring that the vaccine is safe and that the coronavirus and its variants are a health threat.
The efforts are carried out in partnership with the ministry’s Primary Health Care Department, the Health Awareness and Media Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
For her part, the Mission Director of the USAID Sherry Carlin stressed the importance of the agency’s ongoing support to respond to the pandemic in Jordan. “Vaccination is essential to reduce severe symptoms of the coronavirus, and to ensure that we and those around us remain safe,” she stated.
She pointed that vaccinations are “safe and effective,” and are the best way to eradicate this pandemic.
Noteworthy, this campaign was designed through the USAID-funded Nutrition and Community Health Project, and is implemented by the Family Health International to support national efforts to promote the vaccine among parents and their children between the ages of 12-17, according to the recommendations of the Ministry of Health.
Source: Jordan News Agency