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Supply of vaccines against childhood diseases such as polio or measles They began entering the Gaza Strip on Monday through the Rafah crossing with Egypt, Palestinian National Authority
Supply of vaccines against childhood diseases such as polio or measles They began entering the Gaza Strip on Monday through the Rafah crossing with Egypt, Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Health Minister Mai al-Qalia said.
Vaccines purchased, on the one hand, by the PNP government – without direct control over the Gaza Strip and with limited powers in the West Bank – and also donated by UNICEF, “They started coming into the Strip.” taking advantage of the use of “a cold chain located within Egypt to preserve vaccines until they arrived in Gaza,” Al Kalia said.
According to him, after arriving in Gaza they will be used according to “international standards for vaccine storage” and through UNICEF supervision, something key given the growing spread of epidemics, especially among children, plaguing Gaza.
Eat vaccines against polio, measles, mumps and “other routine medications” that will be prescribed to children, which the Department of Health expects “to be sufficient for a period of eight to 14 months.”
Infections and contagious diseases are widespread in the Gaza Strip due to the war and the harsh conditions facing some 1.9 million internally displaced Gazans. -85% of the population- and shortages of food, water, medicine, basic materials and fuel under Israeli siege, allowing humanitarian aid to be accessed rather than in dribs and drabs.
Many hospitals in the enclave does not work due to lack of electricityand those that function do so at a minimum, which contributes to the spread of contagious diseases.
Two days ago, Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, warned that a quarter of Gaza’s population may die within a year from an outbreak of infection.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that some 180,000 residents of Gaza suffer from respiratory tract infections, There were more than 136,000 cases of diarrhea, half of which occurred in children under five, about 55,400 cases of lice and scabies, more than 5,300 cases of chickenpox, 42,000 cases of skin rashes and 126 cases of meningitis.
The day before yesterday, COGAT, the Israeli organization for the coordination of civil affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, announced that it had authorized coordination with UNICEF to bring tens of thousands of doses of vaccines into Gaza to prevent polio, tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis or meningitis.
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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