Representatives of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced:UNRWA) that today’ begins United Nations Its partners distributed the second series of vaccines against polio to children in the central region of the Gaza Strip.
UNRWA described this second round of vaccination as essential, noting that more than a thousand humanitarian workers had been mobilized for this purpose.
Similar to the previous vaccination method, last September, the United Nations announced humanitarian truces allowing about 590,000 children up to ten years of age to be vaccinated.
With the detection of a polio infection, it is the first in… Gaza Strip 25 years ago, launched Global Health Organization A large-scale campaign on September 1 to eliminate the risk of the spread of the epidemic.
More than 560,000 children under the age of ten received the first dose during the first phase of vaccination.
An employee at the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip explained to Agence France-Presse that this second campaign aims to distribute the second dose of the vaccine.
He added, “There is a great demand. People are convinced of the importance of the vaccine.”
