Children immunization and fight of iodine deficiency campaigns launched by Princess Lalla Meryem

Morocco's Princess Lalla Meryem, chairwoman of the National Observatory of children rights (ONDE) presided Wednesday over the launching of the national immunisation campaign and national program for the fight of iodine deficiency.

The campaign launching ceremony held at the high school of Chourafa at Tasltante, 10 km of the Southern Town of Marrakech, was an occasion to inform the Moroccan Princess on the results of the initiatives taken to protect pregnant and procreation-age women as well as children from some diseases.

Some 1.3 million children are to benefit by the immunisation campaign against measles and rubella.

Goitre affects 22 per cent of children aged 6 to 12, which has a negative incidence on the economy causing losses of 1.48 percent to the GDP (3.7 billion Dhs, around 370 million euros).

The same day Princess Lalla Meryem presided over the signing ceremony of a partnership convention between the health ministry and the Moroccan Association for salt production (AMPIS).