From WHO hails success of polio 1st phase vaccination campaign in Gaza
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A health worker marks the finger of a child who received a vaccination for polio in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on September 4, 2024 (Eyad BABA / AFP)
The first phase of a large-scale polio vaccination campaign in Gaza has concluded successfully, the World Health Organization says, providing nearly 200,000 children in the center of the Palestinian territory with their initial dose.
After the first confirmed polio case in 25 years, a massive vaccination effort began on Sunday, aided by localized “humanitarian pauses” in fighting.
The campaign aims to fully vaccinate more than 640,000 children in the territory, devastated by almost 11 months of war.
During the first phase of the campaign, conducted between September 1 and 3 in central Gaza, more than 187,000 children under the age of 10 were reached, the WHO says in a statement.
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