Yemen: UNICEF vaccination campaign reaches five million children
March 11th, 2017“….In the first campaign of its kind this year, 40,000 vaccinators spread across Yemen to provide children with polio vaccine and vitamin A supplements. Mobile health teams have reached children wherever they are, including in places where access to health services has been cut off by the fighting. Health workers have shown heroic resolve in crossing frontlines, mountains and valleys to vaccinate children…..”
A little boy is vaccinated against polio in Sa’ada, Yemen. (file) Photo: UNICEF/UN026952/Madhok
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