and "Khoja" stresses its importance in protecting the planet
Today, the world celebrates World Immunization Week 2022 under the slogan "Long life for all" With the aim of highlighting the importance of vaccines in providing protection for people of all ages from many diseases.
The Secretary-General of the Arab Hospitals Union, Professor of Public Health, Professor Tawfiq Ahmed Khoja, said: This year’s celebration of the world comes within the great efforts made to recover and return to normal life two years after the Corona pandemic, in addition to stressing the importance of the role of immunizations in protecting the inhabitants of the planet, and containing the ferocity of the virus. and its annoying changes.
Khoja added that the most important medical discoveries that the world has witnessed are corona vaccinations This discovery helped protect members of societies and limit the spread of the fiercest pandemic virus that the planet has ever seen and threatened humanity. The importance of discovering corona vaccinations also comes because its virus is one of the most dangerous viruses that has enjoyed many characteristics, including rapid spread and mutations, which led to an increase in the number of infections of community members in all countries of the world.
Khoja added that vaccinations work to immunity or resistance against diseases, as they stimulate the body’s immune system to protect the person from injury or disease, and vaccination is one of the mechanisms that have proven effective in combating and eliminating life-threatening infectious diseases, through Strengthening the immune system that enhances immunity against viruses.
Khoja stressed that the Ebola, cholera and corona vaccines played a pivotal role in combating the outbreak of the epidemic, and these vaccines have reduced global death and disease rates, and vaccines have succeeded over decades in bringing millions of deaths from one of the deadly diseases, as the figures announced annually reveal the size of the achievements that Humankind has been blessed with it since the discovery of vaccines for diseases that claimed millions before, and how they saved lives that were ravaged by deadly viruses and laid them down for years. Hence, vaccines represent one of the greatest success stories in the history of modern medicine.
