DUBAI: Polio vaccination protection in Gaza has reached 90 per cent, the top of the United Nations Palestinian refugee company stated on Monday (Sep 16), including that the following step was to make sure tons of of 1000’s of kids bought a second dose on the finish of the month.
The marketing campaign to vaccinate some 640,000 youngsters in Gaza underneath 10 years of age in opposition to polio, which started on Sep 1, introduced main challenges to UNRWA and its companions because of the ongoing battle between Israel and Hamas.
It adopted affirmation by the World Well being Group (WHO) final month {that a} child had been partially paralysed by the kind 2 polio virus, the primary such case within the Palestinian territory in 25 years.
Greater than 446,000 Palestinian youngsters in central and south Gaza had been vaccinated earlier this month earlier than a marketing campaign to vaccinate a last 200,000 youngsters in north Gaza started on Sep 10 regardless of entry restrictions, evacuation orders and shortages of gasoline.
The primary spherical of the polio vaccination marketing campaign in Gaza ended efficiently, UNRWA’s chief Philippe Lazzarini stated, including that 90 per cent of the enclave’s youngsters had acquired a primary dose.
