UN agencies to start rollout of Gaza polio vaccines
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
UN agencies and local health officials in the Gaza Strip are launching an ambitious campaign to vaccinate 640,000 children against polio. To be effective, the World Health Organization (WHO) says at least 90% of children under 10 must be immunised in a short time frame. We hear from parents on the ground in Gaza.
Also on the programme: another challenge for tech billionaire Elon Musk over his social website 'X', now it's been blocked in Brazil; and the dulcet tones of marmoset monkeys speaking to each other.
(Picture: The mother of Palestinian boy Abdul Rahman Abu Al-Jidyan, who is the first person to contract polio in Gaza in 25 years, gestures as she looks after him in their tent, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip Credit: REUTERS/Ramadan Abed)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. We're coming to |
| 0:08.0 | live from our studio in London and I'm Liz Doucet. We start our program with some rare good news from |
| 0:16.1 | Gaza. Israel and Hamas have both agreed to local limited pauses in the |
| 0:21.4 | fighting to allow more than 600,000 Palestinian children |
| 0:26.0 | to be vaccinated against polio. |
| 0:28.8 | The campaign kicks off tomorrow morning in exceptionally difficult circumstances. Today Palestinian health |
| 0:35.6 | workers started vaccinating a small number of babies in the south of Gaza in |
| 0:40.7 | Nasser Hospital in Hahn-unis. That's taking place ahead of the mass |
| 0:44.9 | immunization which if all goes well will unfold over the next few days. |
| 0:48.8 | Let's listen to these |
| 0:55.0 | vital drops. |
| 0:57.0 | These vital drops. Given the overpopulation of these vital drops. Given the overpopulation of displaced people and the spread of polluted, undinkable water and |
| 1:06.8 | sewage on the streets, this poses a great danger to our children, especially given the |
| 1:12.4 | appearance of the first case of polio in Gaza. |
| 1:15.4 | The families were afraid, and I was afraid for my child who's 11 months old. |
| 1:20.4 | I even came today to give him the vaccination as part of this campaign. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm glad that my daughter received the vaccination. |
| 1:29.0 | God willing, I will have all my children vaccinated. |
| 1:32.0 | And may God keep the disease away from us and end this siege. |
| 1:36.0 | We've fukul marid inshall we've been unal-Hissar. |
| 1:39.0 | Parents palpable relief and it's only possible with a pause in the fighting at least in some areas |
| 1:45.6 | at a news conference today Gaza's deputy minister of health |
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