SCH Organizes A Workshop on Vaccine Management

Doha, May 14 (QNA) -The Supreme Council of Health (SCH) has organized a workshop on vaccine management for training 31 health care providers including 24 nurses from all health centers at the first stage. Dr. Mohamed Al Hajri, the manager of Health Protection and Communicable Disease Control at the SCH's Public Health Department, said that the workshop which was organized in collaboration with the Primary Health Care Corporation, aims at providing the participants with information and necessary skills for ways of storage and peaceful delivery of vaccines as well as its distribution and transporting according to the international peaceful means and ways which instructed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Dr. Al Hajri also explained that the workshop seeks to map out a proposal for the vaccines management in the emergencies' the cases and training to implement it, encouraging cooperation between the national immunization program with other health workers, as well as procedures for the registration of data and reach out to the children who were non- immunized and vaccine . He noted that the workshop comes within steps of a research study which is carried out by the Department Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) at the Health Protection and Communicable Disease Control at the SCH's Public Health Department entitled "Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards the EPI and the cold chain system between service providers from the primary health centers working in the State of Qatar for the year 2013. " During the workshop, a large number of lectures were delivered to strengthening the partnership between the concerned circles and how to reach out to the children who were not immunized .(QNA)