almotamar.net - Deputy Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) of Information Affairs for the Mediterranean Region said Tuesday the WHO was seeking to control the bilharzia disease in Yemen by launching a national campaign next March in cooperation with Yemen's Ministry for Health and Population.

In his statement to almotamar.net Ibrahim al-Kardani made it clear that the camping to control bilharzia targets more than one million and a half of school children at the age of 6-8 years as part of a strategic plan implemented by the WHO to eliminate for good the disease of bilharzia in Yemen.

During his meeting with the governor of Mahweet on Tuesday the WHO official affirmed that the Organisation conducted field studies and formed survey teams in cooperation with the National Programme for Control of Bilharzia in Yemen the beginning of next March.

The governor of Mahweet thanked, on behalf of Yemen, the efforts exerted by the WHO in Yemen. He also praised the successes the Organisation achieved in a number of areas, among them the routine immunization and in other fields realized locally and internationally.