Follow a campaign last year that reached hundreds of thousands of young children under 10 years. Recently, polyomyelitis virus was detected in wastewater samples in Gaza, indicating that the circulation is ongoing, which puts young lives at risk.
The campaign is being directed by the Palestinian Ministry of Health and implemented with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Children .
The General Commissioner of the UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, wrote in the publication on the social media platform X that 1,700 team members are participating in the health centers and the agency's mobile points.
Separately, Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that “the teams are on the field providing support to guarantee a quality campaign.”
UNRWA's health teams constitute a third of the answer, which includes 555 of the total of 1,660 teams involved.
They will broadcast vaccines in 10 of their health centers: one in Rafah, three each in Khan Younis and the average area, and another in the city of Gaza in the north. Around 60 mobile medical points in UNRWA will also carry out vaccines.
The campaign will run until February 26.
