Polio vaccine campaign begins in Gaza: health official
The Peninsula
Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories: A polio vaccination campaign officially began Sunday in the Gaza Strip where the United Nations has announced hu...
Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories: A polio vaccination campaign officially began Sunday in the Gaza Strip where the United Nations has announced "humanitarian pauses" to allow for large-scale innoculation, a health official told AFP.
The campaign was announced after Gaza recorded its first polio case in a quarter of a century last month.
It officially began on Sunday in three health centres in central Gaza, a day after an unspecified number of children were vaccinated in the southern area of the Gaza Strip.
Children aged from one-day-old to 10 years arrived at the centres to receive the dose as drones flew overhead, said Yasser Shaabane, medical director of Al-Awda hospital in central Gaza said.
"There are a lot of drones flying over central Gaza and we hope this vaccination campaign for children will be calm," said Shaabane.
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