A three-day polio vaccination campaign started in Gaza. 187,000 children under the age of 10 in the Gaza Strip were vaccinated against polio in the first phase of the polio vaccination campaign. The United Nations has shared this information.
According to news agency Xinhua, on Wednesday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs (OCHA) said that the campaign will start in the southern region of Gaza from Thursday for three days, after which the campaign will be run in the northern region. The three-day polio vaccination campaign aims to give two doses of the vaccine to more than 640,000 children. Each dose is to be given at an interval of four weeks.
Referring to World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, OCHA said that since Sunday, 187,000 children have been vaccinated by health workers.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said about the polio vaccination campaign that a regional ceasefire is necessary to continue the remaining phases of the campaign smoothly. If this does not happen, we will fail to protect the children of Gaza and will put other children at risk. The polio vaccination campaign was started after a 10-month-old child became partially paralyzed from polio.
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OCHA said that 510 teams have been deployed in central Gaza to make this vaccination campaign a success. 40 health partners are participating in this campaign. Vaccination is being conducted by 17 health care centers and 23 are giving information about the campaign to the communities.
It is worth noting that despite the ongoing war in Gaza, vaccination is being done by running a vaccination campaign. The Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry has reported the death of 42 people in the last 24 hours. Also, 40,861 people have died so far since the start of the war.
Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN’s main agency for Palestinian refugees, said the polio vaccination campaign was making very good progress. Every day more and more children are being vaccinated against polio in central Gaza.
The polio campaign in Gaza was a success, but diplomatic efforts to secure a permanent ceasefire, to bring back many Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and to release hostages in Gaza are failing.
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that Israeli troops would remain in the Philadelphia corridor on the southern edge of Gaza, bordering Egypt.
