The 3rd section of polio vaccination in northern Gaza, suspended on October 23 because of a loss of safety promises, will resume this Saturday, November 2, reported the Global Well being Group (WHO) and the Fund. of the UN Kids’s Fund (UNICEF). The humanitarian pause so that you could perform the inoculations has been assured, … Read more
Mexican para-athlete and gold medalist at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, Gloria Zarza Guadarrama, owes her disability since birth to the after-effects of polio. Polio is caused by a virus that is transmitted by eating contaminated food or contact with a sick person. Once it appears in the body, there is no cure. In 2020 … Read more
loading… Families of victims of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip mourn as bodies of victims are brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza on September 2, 2024. Photo/Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency GAZA STRIP – Israel continues to bomb Gaza during the polio vaccination campaign, ignoring calls for a humanitarian ceasefire or temporary … Read more
The Islamist organisation Hamas welcomed on Thursday the UN’s request for humanitarian pauses to allow the polio vaccination campaign to be implemented in the Gaza Strip. “We have called on the international community to compel Israel to comply with its obligations under international law as an occupying power,” said a statement from the Palestinian group … Read more
COGAT, the Israeli military body that manages civil affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories, announced on Sunday the entry into Gaza of 25,100 vials of polio vaccines, after the devastated enclave registered its first case in 25 years. The doses were supplied by UNICEF, the agency confirmed to EFE, and can immunize more than 1.2 … Read more
A Save the Children doctor in Gaza described the “deep trauma” of Palestinian children to the UN Security Council on Thursday and urged it to act now to stop the conflict, including by banning arms shipments, polio vaccines and humanitarian aid from entering the enclave. Louisa Baxter, who works in the NGO’s emergency unit, described … Read more
The Gaza Ministry of Health declared the Strip a “polio epidemic zone” on Monday, ten days after the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the discovery of the disease in wastewater in the center and south of the Palestinian enclave. “This poses a threat to the health of the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip and neighboring … Read more
The Israeli army will vaccinate its soldiers stationed in Gaza against the polio virus, according to a military statement released on Sunday, after the presence of the disease in the devastated Palestinian territory was announced last week. However, the armed forces have specified that “any soldier who does not want to be vaccinated will not … Read more
Health workers provide polio immunization to students at SD Negeri Tempurejo 1, Kediri, East Java, Monday (1/15/2024). The immunization service using a school pick-up and drop-off system is an effort to make the government’s program of providing simultaneous polio vaccinations a success in managing polio extraordinary events (KLB). REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – The Indonesian Ministry of … Read more
SinPo.id – President of Commission IX DPR RI, Felly Estelita Runtuwene, calls on the government and society to play an active role in the prevention of polio, following the recent reappearance of polio cases in several areas. According to him, each region must prepare for the availability of the vaccine, record the conditions of children … Read more
