Polio vaccination campaign begins in Gaza
- August 31, 2024
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[Síguenos ahora también en WhatsApp. Da clic aquí] The polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip began this Saturday in the city of Khan Younis with the first doses
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The polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip began this Saturday in the city of Khan Younis with the first doses being administered to babies at Nasser Hospital, at the start of a procedure that was actually supposed to formally begin first thing this Sunday morning with mass vaccination of the enclave population.
Both British networks BBC as a Turkish agency Anatolia They confirmed that Some of the babies at the hospital have already received the expected doses, a precursor to a larger initiative aimed at 640,000 children in the enclave.90 percent of the child population and will last until September 12.
Pan-Arab network Al Jazeera He talks about twelve vaccinations.
The head of the campaign’s technical committee, Majdi Duhayr, explained that The campaign will officially begin next Sunday in central Gaza, with a return to Khan Younis.in the south of the enclave, from days 5 to 9. The last four days, from September 9 to 12, are set aside for the completion initiative in Gaza City and the northern strip.
In this sense, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced last Thursday that Israel agreed to a series of “humanitarian pauses” of a “limited” nature. three days in each of these three sectors to facilitate vaccination.
The UN campaign comes after the virus was discovered in wastewater samples from the Gaza Strip in June, following months of Israeli bombing of the enclave as part of the war against Hamas.
Since then, A baby has become the first person in the Gaza Strip to be diagnosed with polio in 25 years.
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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