DUBAI: Polio vaccination protection in Gaza has reached 90 per cent, the pinnacle of the United Nations Palestinian refugee company mentioned on Monday (Sep 16), including that the subsequent step was to make sure lots of of 1000’s of youngsters obtained a second dose on the finish of the month.
The marketing campaign to vaccinate some 640,000 kids in Gaza underneath 10 years of age in opposition to polio, which began on Sep 1, offered main challenges to UNRWA and its companions because of the ongoing conflict 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 sort 2 polio virus, the primary such case within the Palestinian territory in 25 years.
Greater than 446,000 Palestinian kids in central and south Gaza had been vaccinated earlier this month earlier than a marketing campaign to vaccinate a final 200,000 children 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 mentioned, including that 90 per cent of the enclave’s kids had acquired a primary dose.
