CAIRO: The United Nations, in collaboration with Palestinian well being authorities, began to vaccinate 640,000 children in the Gaza Strip on Sunday (Sep 1), with Israel and Hamas agreeing to brief pauses of their 11-month conflict 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 sort 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 at the very least 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 slightly below two weeks.
“COMPLEX” CAMPAIGN
“That is the primary few hours of the primary part of an enormous marketing campaign, probably the most complicated on the earth,” stated Juliette Touma, communications director of UNRWA, the UN Palestinian refugee company.
“In the present day is check time for events to the battle to respect these space pauses to permit the UNRWA groups and different medical employees to succeed in kids with these very treasured two drops. It’s a race in opposition to time,” Touma instructed Reuters.
