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Workshop on controlling dengue fever kicks off

ADEN, June 02 (Saba)- Minister of Public Health and Population Abdul- Karim Rasea and governor of Aden Adnan al-Jafri inaugurated on Wednesday the national workshop on combating dengue fever.

The two-day workshop, organized by Care Sector in the Health Ministry in
cooperation with World Health Organization (WHO), discusses the epidemiological
international and
local situation for dengue fever.
At the workshop opening, attended by 45 participants from eight provinces, Rasea
reviewed the ministry's efforts in combating the local epidemiology and
cross-border diseases,
in addition to its achievements during the pervious years in the field of national
capacity-building for epidemiological surveillance.
For his part, the WHO's Representative to Yemen Ghulam Rabban affirmed the
organization's commitment to cooperate with the Health Ministry in offering support
and technical
experience to reduce the spread of dengue fever.
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