Health workers say they won't be able to vaccinate all the children they had planned to reach because of ongoing fighting.
Multiple children were injured when Israeli bombs struck near a vaccination clinic in northern Gaza, WHO says.
Aid agencies said that children in some areas of northern Gaza where Israel is mounting an offensive against Hamas will miss ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said six people including four children were hurt Saturday in a strike on a polio ...
To interrupt poliovirus transmission, at least 90 per cent of all children in every community and neighbourhood must be ...
"Having a significant number of children miss out on their second vaccine dose will seriously jeopardize efforts to stop the transmission of poliovirus in Gaza," it said. Polio tends to spread ...
The World Health Organisation said on Friday it hoped to administer a second dose of the polio vaccine to children in northern Gaza from next week, after Israeli bombing had halted the drive. The ...
Aghaalkurdi is a humanitarian worker displaced in Khan Younis, Gaza. In August ... ve been able to administer the first doses of the polio vaccine to 559,161 children. I have been heartened ...
Instead, her father carried her on his back for about an hour. Polio has been eradicated from Gaza for a quarter of a century. But the conflict over the last year and ensuing unsanitary conditions ...
Arriving at Deir el-Balah health centre in the central Gaza Strip, parents and children are taking part in the second round of polio vaccination being rolled out in the devastated territory.
The vaccination drive began after the Gaza Strip confirmed its first case of polio in 25 years ... says a minimum of two separate doses of oral vaccine are needed to interrupt poliovirus ...
Second dose needed – The vaccination drive began after the Gaza Strip confirmed its first case of polio in 25 years ... of two separate doses of oral vaccine are needed to interrupt poliovirus ...