CAIRO: The United Nations, in collaboration with Palestinian health authorities, began to vaccinate 640,000 children in the Gaza Strip on Sunday (Sep 1), with Israel and Hamas
A Palestinian child is vaccinated against polio, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on Sep 1, 2024. The World Health Organisation confirmed last month that a baby was partially paralysed by the type 2 polio virus, the first such case in the territory in 25 years.
The WHO said the pauses will likely need to extend to a fourth day and the first round of vaccinations will take just under two weeks."This is the first few hours of the first phase of a massive campaign, one of the most complex in the world," said Juliette Touma, communications director of UNRWA, the UN Palestinian refugee agency.
A Palestinian child is vaccinated against polio, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on Sep 1, 2024. WHO officials say at least 90 per cent of the children need to be vaccinated twice with four weeks between doses for the campaign to succeed, but it faces huge challenges in Gaza, which has been largely destroyed by the war.
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