The reduction of United Nations support for healthcare institutions in northwestern Syria’s Idlib has put the region’s health sector at serious risk of collapse. Dozens of hospitals and clinics in Idlib have been sustained through the support provided by intermediary organizations backed by the UN. The UN’s World Health Organizatio...
GENEVA (AA) – More than 560,000 children in Gaza were vaccinated against polio in the first round, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief says. “Over 560,000 children aged below ten years of age were vaccinated against polio during the first round of an emergency vaccination campaign in Gaza, which was completed yesterday,”...
ISTANBUL (AA) – World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday that 97 patients and critically wounded people from the Gaza Strip were evacuated for treatment to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). “WHO, in collaboration with the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and p...
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) chief has said that the first phase of polio vaccination in central Gaza is complete, with more than 187,000 children vaccinated. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X that the number of vaccinated children is “well over” the target of 156,500. “Four fixed sites will cont...
Palestinian Territories – AFP A polio vaccination campaign officially began Sunday in the Gaza Strip where the United Nations has announced “humanitarian pauses” to allow for large-scale innoculation, a health official told AFP. The campaign was announced after Gaza recorded its first polio case in a quarter of a century last...
Israel has consented to limited humanitarian pauses in its war on Gaza to facilitate a crucial polio vaccination drive. The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced this campaign. It is set to start on Sunday and will immunize 640,000 children under the age of 10. The effort was necessitated by a confirmed polio case in […]
GENEVA (AA) – The start of a polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip remains uncertain as the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights the need for “security and access guarantees.” More than 1 million polio vaccines have reached Gaza, but WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris said that the vaccination campaign can only com...
ATHENS (AA) – EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has stressed the need for a cease-fire in Gaza to allow children to be vaccinated against poliovirus. “The quick spread of polio threatens all children in Gaza, already weakened by displacement, deprivation & malnourishment,” he stated on X. Urging an immediate three-day cease-fire, indep...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Gaza’s health ministry announced late Sunday that it had received 1.26 million doses of polio vaccine. “A total of 1.26 million doses of the OPV2 polio vaccine have arrived, along with 500 vaccine coolers,” the ministry said in a statement. “Preparations are underway to launch the (vaccine) campaig...
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – The UN chief on Friday called for a “polio pause” in Gaza to facilitate a major vaccination campaign. Describing Gaza as being in a “humanitarian freefall,” Antonio Guterres told reporters in a press conference: “Just when it seems the situation could not get worse for Palestinians in...