URGENT APPEAL:
Measles is starting to spread among children in Raqqa #Syria governorate as an epidemic spreading wide and fast. It needs to be addressed effectively as soon as possible. Mortality rate of this disease in advanced countries is no more than 2/1000 but it is so much higher in our countries let alone the high morbidity rate due to lack of necessary medical care and malnutrition in highly populated areas particularly of the displaced. This helps exacerbate the epidemic rapidly.
Measles is starting to spread among children in Raqqa #Syria governorate as an epidemic spreading wide and fast. It needs to be addressed effectively as soon as possible. Mortality rate of this disease in advanced countries is no more than 2/1000 but it is so much higher in our countries let alone the high morbidity rate due to lack of necessary medical care and malnutrition in highly populated areas particularly of the displaced. This helps exacerbate the epidemic rapidly.
WE NEED THE FOLLOWING URGENTLY:
1- Vaccination against measles
2- Globulin for Measles (if possible)
3- Vitamin A
4- Identifying special vaccination centers across the governorate so that doctors can refer infected children, susceptible people and pregnant women to those centers.
We hope all medical bodies in the governorate can undertake their responsibility. We also call on all means of media to shed light on our plight and help get the word out as all means of communication have been cut off for the past 25 days.(By: We are all Hamza AlKhateeb)
