“Egypt has suffered for long from polio, a disease that has been endemic in the country for almost 3000 years, as illustrated in Pharaonic inscriptions. It has infected millions of children in Egypt and the world until 1955 when scientists discovered the first vaccine against poliovirus,” reported by UNICEF.
On the 24thof February, Hala Zayed Minister of Health, hand in hand with Port Said Governor Abdel El Ghadban, paved a path for a new local campaign to defeat poliomyelitis among Egyptians, through a polio vaccine.
The campaign hired 90,000 physicians and will be available until the 27thof this month.
