Rate of routine child inoculations has risen to more than 95% of the target categories under the Kingdom’s national immunization program, according to Secretary-General for Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases Affairs at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Adel Balbisi.
In a press statement Sunday, Balbisi affirmed the continued efforts made by the Ministry of Health to increase these inoculation rates in the governorates, with a percentage less than 95%.
The ministry pays “remarkable” attention to the process of vaccinating newborns up to school age to protect their health, he pointed out.
The ministry continues to provide vaccination services in the maternity and childhood departments in Jordan’s health centers, with the aim of reaching the targeted categories to raise immunization rates, according to Balbisi.
The Covid-19 pandemic caused a “noticeable” decline during 2020 in the child immunization rates as a result of the lockdown in the Kingdom witnessed at the beginning of the crisis, Balbisi said.
The ministry, he noted, had resumed the process of child vaccination process within the national immunization program as soon as the Kingdom’s sectors began to open.
Referring to the ministry’s measures to restore pre-pandemic immunization rates, he said this drive led to gradually increasing inoculated children, thanks to the intensified field and supervisory tours to the health directorates and centers countrywide.
In a related context, a comprehensive evaluation of Jordan’s national immunization program was conducted, in cooperation and coordination with the World Health Organization (WHO), with the aim of identifying related challenges, he pointed out.
Source: Jordan News Agency