GAZA, October, 17, 2024 (WAFA) – Minister of Health Majed Abu Ramadan said that the ministry, in partnership with the teams of the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), was able to vaccinate 181,429 children under the age of ten against polio in the central governorate of the Gaza Strip within three days.
He added in a statement that Vitamin A was given to 148,064 children "from two to ten years old" in various vaccination centers in the governorate, as part of the second round of the emergency campaign to vaccinate against polio in the southern governorates.
Ramadan pointed out that today is the last day of vaccination in the central governorate, and the day after tomorrow, Saturday, the teams will begin vaccinating children in the governorates of Khan Yunis and Rafah for 4 days, and then in the governorates of Gaza and the North.
The campaign aims to vaccinate 591,700 children under the age of ten, by deploying fixed and mobile teams to complete the campaign.
The Ministry of Health stressed that the success of this campaign depends on a humanitarian truce to ensure the ability of all polio workers to work in a safe environment and enable families to vaccinate their children.
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