ORAN- Algeria has achieved positive results in vaccination against various diseases and epidemics as part of its health prevention policy, the Director General of the National Institute of Public Health, Dr Bouamra Abderrazek, said Wednesday in Oran.
Dr Bouamra emphasized, during a regional training meeting for doctors and managers of vaccination programs, organized as from today by the Regional Health Observatory of Oran, that "Algeria has succeeded, thanks to the material and human capacities it has mobilized in recent years, in achieving great positive results in vaccination".
He added that the success of the national vaccination program in Algeria has reduced the infant mortality rate, reaching 17 deaths per 1,000 births in recent years, while it was estimated at about 180 deaths per 1,000 births after the independence.
Algeria has also succeeded in combating several diseases and epidemics, including chickenpox, polio, measles and others, according to the same official, who underlined that the National Institute of Public Health, in cooperation with the supervisory ministry, has recently launched a training program for doctors and managers of vaccination programs at the provincial level, allowing them to exchange expertise and experiences, knowing that the launch was carried out from the country’s western provinces and the operation will be generalized to the rest of the country in the next stage.
The Director of the Regional Health Observatory of Oran, Nawel Belarbi, said that this two-day training meeting, in the presence of 100 doctors and managers of vaccination programs at the level of ten provinces of the country’s West, focuses on communications on the national vaccination program, led by practitioners from the Regional Health Observatory of Oran, the health directorates of Oran and Relizane.
The attendees also participate in workshops dealing with, among others, the information system, data quality as a means of decision-making in the programming of vaccination campaigns and the communication strategy as a means of raising awareness of the importance of these programs.
