UAE begins vaccination programme for 12,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan
The Emirates Red Crescent has launched the first phase of a vaccination programme for Syrian refugees who live in camps in Jordan.
The goal is to vaccinate 12,000 people in the Emirati-Jordanian camp of Mrajeeb Al Fhood, and the camps of Zaatari, Al Azraq and Al Hadiqa, state news agency Wam reported yesterday.
The Sinopharm vaccine will be given. The health campaign is in line with the directives of Sheikha Fatima, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union, President of the Supreme
Council for Motherhood and Childhood and honorary chairwoman of the ERC.
“This programme is implemented under an Emirati-Jordanian partnership represented by the Emirates Red Crescent, the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi and the
Jordanian Ministry of Health, and in co-ordination with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,” said Mohammed Al Falahi, ERC secretary general.
Dr Ghazi Sharkas, assistant secretary general for epidemics and communicable diseases in Jordan’s Ministry of Health, stressed the importance of providing the coronavirus vaccines for the Syrian refugees and complimented the UAE for its role in doing so.
The vaccination drive followed last week’s announcement that the UAE began an initiative to export thousands of doses of vaccines to countries
struggling to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
The ERC and Tamouh Healthcare will assist in delivering and administering vaccines in countries around the Middle East and farther afield to help them overcome the virus.
Meanwhile, the UAE has provided aid to more than 135 countries since the coronavirus pandemic began in March last year.
Kenya, Syria and Guinea were among the many countries to benefit.
The ERC vaccine drive in Jordanian camps is the latest in a series to tackle Covid-19 and the need for humanitarian aid