CAIRO: The United Nations, in collaboration with Palestinian well being authorities, started to vaccinate 640,000 kids within the Gaza Strip on Sunday (Sep 1), with Israel and Hamas agreeing to transient pauses of their 11-month struggle to permit the marketing campaign to go forward.
The World Well being Organisation (WHO) confirmed final month {that a} child was partially paralysed by the kind 2 polio virus, the primary such case within the territory in 25 years.
The marketing campaign started on Sunday in areas of central Gaza, and can transfer to different areas in coming days. Preventing will pause for no less than eight hours on three consecutive days.
The WHO stated the pauses will doubtless want to increase to a fourth day and the primary spherical of vaccinations will take just below two weeks.
“COMPLEX” CAMPAIGN
“That is the primary few hours of the primary part of an enormous marketing campaign, one of the crucial advanced on the planet,” stated Juliette Touma, communications director of UNRWA, the UN Palestinian refugee company.
“As we speak is take a look at time for events to the battle to respect these space pauses to permit the UNRWA groups and different medical staff to succeed in kids with these very valuable two drops. It’s a race towards time,” Touma advised Reuters.
