{"id":13575,"date":"2023-02-21T00:23:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T00:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=13575"},"modified":"2023-02-21T00:24:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T00:24:22","slug":"polio-vaccination-campaign-kickoff-in-the-eastern-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2023\/02\/polio-vaccination-campaign-kickoff-in-the-eastern-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Polio vaccination campaign begins\u00a0in the eastern zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\":iy\" class=\"Ar Au Ao\">\n<div id=\":iu\" class=\"Am Al editable LW-avf tS-tW tS-tY\" role=\"textbox\" aria-label=\"Message Body\">\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) has started the polio vaccination campaign in Nangarhar, Kunar, Laghman and Nooristan provinces that it will continue until Thursday.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<p>Kamal Shah, UNICEF&#8217;s spokesperson for Afghanistan, told Salam Watandar that in this round, more than one million children under the age of five will be vaccinated against polio. &#8220;In the current year, nine local cases have been recorded and this shows the existence of the polio virus in these areas. For this reason, we have started a house-to-house campaign to deliver anti-polio vaccines in the eastern provinces and it will continue until Thursday&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A number of families have welcomed the implementation of the polio vaccine, saying that its implementation will save their children from paralysis.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah, a resident of Laghman, said: &#8220;The employees of the anti-polio vaccination department came to our homes and vaccinated our children to save them from polio.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amanullah, a resident of Kunar, said: &#8220;The anti-polio vaccination campaign has started in our province and our children have been vaccinated. I ask families to vaccinate their children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Local religious scholars have asked families to ensure anti-polio vaccines to their children in order to avoid the risk of paralysis.<\/p>\n<p>Mukhtar Mohammad Osmani, a religious scholar, said: &#8220;The anti-polio vaccine is effective for children, families should ensure this vaccine for their children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only countries where polio has not been completely eradicated.<\/p>\n<p>It should be mentioned that in 2022, only two cases of polio were recorded in the country, one in Paktika and the other in Kunar province.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">ENDS<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) has started the polio vaccination campaign in Nangarhar, Kunar, Laghman and Nooristan provinces that it will continue until Thursday. Kamal Shah, UNICEF&#8217;s spokesperson for Afghanistan, told Salam Watandar that in this round, more than one million children under the age of five will be vaccinated against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,218],"tags":[12,260,261],"class_list":["post-13575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-health","tag-afghanistan","tag-polio","tag-vaccine"],"views":166,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13578,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13575\/revisions\/13578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}