Turkey to provide Georgia with 100,000 MMR vaccines

Turkey will provide Georgia with 100,000 MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccines,- the Embassy of Turkey to Georgia told InterPressNews.

The relevant document was signed by Zaza Bokhua, First Deputy Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia, and Emine Alp Meşe, Deputy Minister of Health of Turkey.

On February 14, Istanbul hosted ministerial consultation on the implementation of the Action Plan to Improve Public Health Preparedness and Response. On the sidelines of the ministerial, the government of Georgia and Turkey signed agreement on cooperation in struggle against infectious deceases.