Thousands of Vaccines Coming from Turkey Enter Terrorist-Controlled Areas in Aleppo Countryside

DAMASCUS-Some 6,000 doses of vaccines for children coming from Turkey entered terrorists-controlled areas in the northwestern countryside of Aleppo during the past few days, SANA reported.

Local sources told SANA reporter that the locals refused to give the vaccines to their children for fears of being poisoned or inconsistent with health conditions in terms of quality, expiry date, reliability, the producing company and the way they are saved and transferred.

 On September 16 2014, fake health establishments linked to terrorist organizations in cooperation with the Turkish authorities vaccinated children in the eastern areas of Maaret al-Nouman in Idleb countryside with poisoned and polluted vaccines for measles, killing 15 children immediately. Many others suffered suffocation.

In a relevant context, the Ministry of Health called on locals in the areas near the joint border with Turkey not to deal with any medicines or vaccines which enter their areas by the Turkish authorities, asserting that the ministry will spare no effort in providing locals with medical needs especially vaccines for children through all available means in cooperation with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and other international organizations concerned with health affairs in the Syrian territories.

The ministry said that it takes into account the fact that giving the vaccines to children requires strict standards, technical conditions, skills and expertise by specialized medical staffs.