AMMAN — The
Ministry of Health received Wednesday a shipment of
vaccines from the
World Health Organization, funded by the
EU’s Regional Trust
Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis (Madad), to support the national
immunization program.
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According to the Jordan News Agency, Petra, the free shipment of
vaccines included 61,570 doses of the measles vaccine, 54,900 doses of the DTP
vaccine, 308,000 doses of the polio vaccine, and 144,710 doses of the
hexavalent vaccine.
Additionally, the shipment included the double viral vaccines, which are given
to first-grade students, tenth-grade students, and pregnant women; the DTP
vaccine, given to children at the age of 18 months as a booster dose; the hexavalent
vaccine, given to children in three doses at the age of two, three and four
months; the
measles vaccine, given to children at the age of 9 months, and the
hepatitis A vaccine, given to children in two doses at the age of one year old
and at a year and a half years old.
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