Rabat – Morocco’s Ministry of Health and Social Protection on Wednesday launched an extensive national campaign to strengthen vaccination against measles, part of its proactive policy aimed at limiting the spread of epidemics and strengthening response.

This initiative aims to restore child vaccination to levels observed before the Covid-19 pandemic, which led to a drop in vaccination coverage rates in most regions and provinces of the Kingdom, the ministry pointed out in a press release.

The ministry strongly encourages all families to promptly review their children’s medical records in health centers and private practices to ensure the administration of the required doses for measles (at the ages of nine and eighteen months), the same source noted, stressing the need to administer two doses of vaccine to children not yet vaccinated while supplementing the doses for those who have received only one dose.

As part of its communication strategy aimed at monitoring the epidemiological evolution of measles and
its continued efforts to contain the spread of epidemiological diseases and protect public health, the ministry announces that it has monitored the emergence of new cases of measles in Morocco suggesting a more widespread expansion of the virus, the same source said.

Emphasizing the importance of this campaign as a preventive measure aimed at protecting citizens and society from the risk of measles, the ministry encourages all parties concerned to actively participate in this operation and visit health centers to receive the vaccine free of charge, the same source noted.

Source: Agence Marocaine De Presse