(EPI) continues to train supply officers in the effective management of vaccines

The Citizen /Haffiya Elyas

The Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) at the Federal Ministry of Health continued to train supply officers on the effective management of vaccines and cold chain equipment, targeting the northern states of the River Nile and Khartoum, which will continue until Sunday, March 24, and comes under the slogan (although they are vaccinated, they must continue) with the support of UNICEF.

The Acting Director of the General Administration of Basic Health Care, Dr. Ahmed Mohammed Abdullah, said in the opening session of the training course in Kassala is one of the directives of the World Health Organization with the aim of raising the efficiency of workers, comes within a training plan for workers in the cold chain, pointing to a number of successes achieved by the Federal Expanded Program on Immunization after the outbreak of war, led by success in saving vaccines despite the risks at the beginning of the war, including more than 6 million doses of measles vaccine. and safe rubella, along with more than 6 million doses of routine vaccination vaccines, noting that cold chains in war-affected states have been affected.