Ukraine to begin long-delayed mass polio vaccination program.

Ukraine to begin long-delayed mass polio vaccination program.
  
Comments by Greg Krasovsky:

The Poroshenko-Yatsenyuk government in Kyiv had a choice in 2014 and 2015 - negotiate a political settlement with the Donetsk & Lugansk Pro-Autonomy/Federalization/Decentralization movements and spend borrowed money on healthcare, education, pensions and other vital government programs.

Instead, they chose to spend government funds on the civil war in an attempt to crush the Donetsk & Lugansk autonomy movements by military force.

The result? War crimes and crimes against humanity, loss of countless innocent civilian lives, destroyed industry and infrastructure and no money for basic services, like Polio vaccinations for Ukrainian children. 

This is what happens when war-mongering politicians have free reign and foreign political, economic and military support.
  
How many more Ukrainian children will have to die from disease, war and malnutrition before the people of Ukraine stop supporting politicians that would sacrifice the lives and well-being of ordinary Ukrainians for the politicians' financial interests, political power and the agenda of their foreign sponsors?
  
Is this what Ukrainian children deserve? 

Protection from polio thanks to a batch of vaccines donated by Canada but possible spoiled due to improper storage? 

Would you want to take the chance and vaccinate your child from such a batch?


See http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-edition-1.3264765/ukraine-to-begin-long-delayed-mass-polio-vaccination-program-1.3264771

"Ukraine's Health Minister signed a decree today kick-starting a mass polio vaccination program in the country after two cases of the paralyzing disease were discovered in the country last month.

Ukraine currently has 3.7 million doses of the polio vaccine, which were paid for by the Canadian government. But Kyiv has been dragging its feet for weeks on starting a mass vaccination after concerns were raised about the safety of the vaccines.
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All-Ukrainian Council on Patients' Rights and Safety is concerned that "the vaccines, which have been in storage in Ukraine since being shipped from France in May, are nearing their six-month expiration. They are supposed to be kept frozen, but Kvartiuk says the safety council believes the vaccines were thawed during transport and storage.""
      
"Two children aged 10-months and four-years-old were paralyzed last month after contracting the debilitating disease in the first polio cases in Europe since 2010. Hundreds more are believed to be carrying the virus.

Ukraine was previously declared polio-free, but vaccination levels have dropped to less than 50 per cent of children and 14 per cent of infants in the country. More than three million children are believed to be at risk."