Comply with a marketing campaign final yr that reached tons of of hundreds of younger youngsters underneath 10 years. Not too long ago, polyomyelitis virus was detected in wastewater samples in Gaza, indicating that the circulation is ongoing, which places younger lives in danger.
The marketing campaign is being directed by the Palestinian Ministry of Well being and carried out with the help of the World Well being Group (WHO), the UN Youngsters .
The Common Commissioner of the UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, wrote within the publication on the social media platform X that 1,700 crew members are collaborating within the well being facilities and the company’s cell factors.
Individually, Director Common Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated that “the groups are on the sphere offering help to ensure a top quality marketing campaign.”
UNRWA’s well being groups represent a 3rd of the reply, which incorporates 555 of the entire of 1,660 groups concerned.
They are going to broadcast vaccines in 10 of their well being facilities: one in Rafah, three every in Khan Younis and the common space, and one other within the metropolis of Gaza within the north. Round 60 cell medical factors in UNRWA will even perform vaccines.
The marketing campaign will run till February 26.