University Hosts Measles Immunization Know-how Session

University hosted on Wednesday 4-11-2014 a training session for vaccination monitors at Ma’een District, Sana’a, as part of the immunization training program it sponsors.

Participants in the training program learn how to give vaccine doses and to keep records and make reports of the campaign against German measles beginning at Ma’een on Sunday 11-11-2014.

Over the next three days, a know-how course will be held for the health workers implementing the campaign before dividing them into field teams.  Al-Nasser students would also participate in the campaign of immunizing school children below 15 years within a span of 5 to 10 days of the current month.

Rubella or German measles is grouped with ten fatal diseases that jeopardize children and pregnant women’s lives.  It may even cause distortions to the embryo inside its mother’s womb in the event of coming into contact with the infected.  It is also reported to cause the diseases leading to pneumonia, blindness and, in certain cases, death.