Health workers in Gaza have begun vaccinating around 640,000 children against polio. Aid workers are carrying out immunizations across the territory. The program depends on Israel and Hamas sticking to agreed humanitarian pauses in the fighting. Polio spreads rapidly in unsanitary conditions and can cause paralysis and death.
Chapter Breakdown:
0:00 Polio vaccination drive enabled by agreed ‘humanitarian pauses’
0:27 Dr. Richard Peeperkorn, WHO Representative in the occupied Palestinian Territories, addresses the challenges facing aid workers in vaccinating around 640,000 children in the Gaza Strip
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