World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday hailed the ongoing polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip as a “huge success” after half a million children in the Strip received their first dose despite the war.
As Breitbart News reported earlier this month, the Israeli government, working with international health organizations, has launched a massive polio vaccination campaign to save children in Gaza from death and disability.
Agence France-Presse (via The Times of Israel) attention:
The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has hailed the success of the first phase of a mass polio vaccination campaign in the war-torn Gaza Strip, with more than 560,000 children receiving their first dose.
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After the first confirmed polio cases in 25 years, a mass vaccination drive aimed at reaching at least 90 percent of children under the age of 10 began on September 1st, supported by a “humanitarian pause” in the fighting.
…The first phase of the campaign ended on Thursday, delivering vaccines first to children in central Gaza, then the south, and finally to the hardest-to-reach areas in the north of the Gaza Strip.
The vaccination campaign is due to continue in four weeks as children will need a second dose of the vaccine to be fully immunised.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) found polio in a water facility in the Gaza Strip in July. Soldiers were vaccinated on a voluntary basis. The scale and intensity of the vaccination campaign, conducted in the absence of a formal ceasefire, also contradicts accusations by Israel's enemies that it is plotting a “genocide” in its war against Hamas.
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