WHO Expects Vaccination To Protect Gaza Children From Polio To Pneumonia

Vaccination for polio in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. (Twitter/@DrTedros)

JAKARTA - The World Health Organization (WHO) hopes that the vaccination campaign carried out on children in the Gaza Strip, Palestine will be able to protect them from polio to pneumonia.

The WHO said on Wednesday it was targeting vaccination of more than 40,000 children in Gaza against various diseases, as the recent ceasefire took effect.

So far, WHO and its partners have vaccinated more than 10,000 children under the age of three in the first eight days of the campaign's initial phase launched on November 9, quoted from Al Arabiya November 20.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the program's first phase had been extended until Saturday and hoped to protect children from Campurism, gondongan, rubela, diphtheria, tetanus, cough rejan, hepatitis B, tuberculosis, polio, rotavirus to pneumonia.

Meanwhile, the second and third phases of the campaign, which were carried out in collaboration with UNICEF, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), and the Ministry of Health in Gaza, are planned for December and January.

The WHO chief said he was "insisted to ensure the ceasefire continues, as it allows WHO and its partners to intensify essential health services across Gaza and support the necessary equipment and reconstruction for its broken health system."

It is known that the UN Security Council on Monday agreed on a resolution in favor of US President Donald Trump's plan, which facilitated the formation of a ceasefire on October 10 between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.