Aid agencies to start Gaza polio vaccinations
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Aid agencies are preparing to start a mass polio vaccination programme in Gaza, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a series of pauses in the fighting.
The campaign will aim to vaccinate around 640,000 children across the Gaza strip and will begin on Sunday, the World Health Organisation says.
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(File photo showing a nurse handling a syringe. Credit: Gareth Fuller/PA)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.4 | We're coming to you live from London. I'm James Menendez and we're going to begin |
| 0:10.3 | today in the Middle East in a few minutes we'll be hearing about Israel's |
| 0:13.8 | military operation in the Occupy West Bank where it says it's killed a local Hamas commander. |
| 0:19.6 | But before that we're going to head to Gaza because from this weekend Israel and Hamas |
| 0:24.3 | will hold a series of what have been called humanitarian pauses to allow UN agencies |
| 0:29.3 | to begin vaccinating hundreds of thousands of children against polio. |
| 0:34.0 | That's after a baby became the first confirmed case of this highly infectious virus in Gaza for a quarter of a century. |
| 0:42.0 | He's 10 month old Abdul Rahman and his mother |
| 0:45.2 | has been speaking to the BBC about his devastating diagnosis. |
| 0:49.3 | And it's been with the fell mousad. My name is Navena Bozadian. |
| 0:55.0 | My name is Navena Bozadian. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm the mother of the child who has polio. |
| 1:01.0 | My son was a normal boy, before suddenly coming down with a fever and vomiting. |
| 1:05.6 | I took him to the hospital and they gave him antibiotics and a drip for two weeks and they took a blood sample for testing. |
| 1:14.0 | Once we got home, he wasn't moving at all. |
| 1:18.0 | A child who I had watching learning to walk, |
| 1:21.0 | now just spent the day asleep. Then I got a call from the hospital to say |
| 1:26.3 | that my son is the first case of polio in the area. They have just left him as he is to live in a tent. |
| 1:34.0 | My son is just waiting and no one is helping him. |
| 1:38.0 | No one has mercy. |
| 1:40.0 | I wish he could move. |
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