UNRWA notes progress in Gaza polio campaign
- September 4, 2024
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[Síguenos ahora también en Whatsapp. Da clic aquí] Main United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Wednesday that it was Good progress made in delivering polio vaccine
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Main United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Wednesday that it was Good progress made in delivering polio vaccine to children in Gaza.
UNRWA said that after three days of campaigning in central Gaza About 187,000 children received the vaccine. The campaign will move to other areas of the enclave in the second stage.
The operation was prompted by the discovery of a case of polio in a child last month.first in Gaza in 25 years. Israel and Hamas militants reach agreement daily eight-hour breaks in combat in the previously mentioned areas to ensure that the vaccination programme could be carried out. No violations were recorded.
Philip LazzariniThe head of the global aid agency announced this on a social network. X:
Great progress! Every day in Sredniy Gaza more children are receiving the polio vaccine.
“While these polio ‘pauses’ give people a breathing space, a permanent ceasefire is urgently needed. release of all hostages + standard flow of humanitarian aid, including medical and hygiene supplies“, said.
Palestinians say one of the main reasons for the return of polio is collapse of the health system and destruction of most of Gaza’s hospitals. Israel accuses Hamas of using hospitals for military purposeswhich the Islamist group denies.
On Tuesday, COGAT, the Israeli Defense Ministry agency tasked with coordinating humanitarian aid deliveries to the Palestinian territories, said it had been contributed to the delivery of 282,126 vials of polio vaccine, enough for 2,821,260 people.
He also indicated in his statement that some 554,512 vials of vaccines have arrived in the Gaza Strip, which is enough to produce 4,973,736 individual vaccines against various diseases and possible epidemics in the Gaza Strip.
Gaza’s population is about 2.3 million.
Reuters
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