The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced today, Tuesday, that it is still waiting for the arrival of vaccines for the polio campaign.
“In order to reach every child, we need safe conditions, and this requires a ceasefire during the campaign,” the ministry said in a post on its Facebook page today.
The Ministry of Health recorded the first case of polio in the city of Deir al-Balah in a 10-month-old child, who had not received any vaccination dose, and doctors suspected the presence of symptoms consistent with the disease. After conducting the necessary tests in the Jordanian capital, Amman, the infection with the polio virus strain derived from the vaccine was confirmed.
Palestinian Health Minister Majed Abu Ramadan announced last Saturday that “the ministry’s teams in the Gaza Strip will implement a vaccination campaign for children under the age of 10 in the coming days, in cooperation with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), and in coordination with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization.”