US EditionWHO announces limited pauses in Gaza fighting to allow for polio vaccinations
- The U.N. World Health Organization announced limited pauses in fighting in Gaza for polio vaccinations after a baby contracted the first confirmed case in 25 years.
- "Humanitarian pauses" will last three days, with vaccinations starting Sunday in central Gaza, according to Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative.
- The vaccination campaign aims to immunize 640,000 Palestinian children but faces challenges due to destroyed roads and damaged hospitals.
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Jerusal.- The campaign to vaccinate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus began on Saturday, the Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip reported, as Palestinians in the Hamas-ruled enclave and the occupied West Bank try to evade Israeli military offensives. Children in Gaza have already started to be vaccinated, the Ministry of Health said at a press conference, one day before the large-scale vaccination campaign and t…
Hamas, iniziata a Gaza la campagna di vaccini contro polio - Ultima ora
Un funzionario sanitario ha dichiarato che è iniziata a Gaza la campagna di vaccinazione contro la poliomielite, dopo che il territorio devastato dalla guerra ha registrato il primo caso di malattia in un quarto di secolo. (ANSA)
Polio vaccine campaign begins in Gaza a day before fighting is expected to pause
Children in Gaza began receiving vaccines Saturday, a day before the large-scale rollout and planned pause in fighting agreed to by Israel and the United Nations World Health Organization.
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Health official says polio vaccine campaign begins in war-torn Gaza
A health official said a polio vaccination campaign had begun in Gaza on Saturday (Aug 31) after the war-torn territory recorded its first case of the disease in a quarter of a century. Local health officials along with the UN and NGOs "are starting today the polio vaccination campaign in the central regio
Israel's deadly raid in occupied West Bank continues as Gaza polio vaccine campaign begins
The Israeli army said two Palestinians were killed overnight while preparing to carry out bombings in the occupied West Bank. In Gaza, the enclave's Health Ministry said a campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus began on Saturday.
On Saturday, the Ministry of Health in Gaza launched from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip a vaccination campaign against polio for children under 10 years of age, in cooperation with international institutions, amid the continuation of the Israeli war. Dr. Musa Abed, Director General of Primary Health Care at the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, told AFP that Ministry of Health teams in cooperation with the United Nations and NGOs st…
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