Arrival of children’s vaccine shipment to Gaza

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, the Ministry of Health of Palestine announced today, Monday, thousands of doses of vaccines against children’s diseases, including polio and measles, to deal with the emergency and health crisis in the besieged Gaza. entered the area.

According to Reuters, Israel’s ground war against Gaza has effectively cut off normal health services, including vaccinations against highly contagious childhood diseases. has stopped and out of control.

The ministry announced that the shipment of vaccines, which is estimated to be enough to cover vaccination between eight and 14 months, through the Rafah border crossing on the border with Egypt with the help of facilities A mortuary of the government of this country entered Gaza.

The head of international relations at the Ministry of Health in Ramallah, Yasser Bouzia, said that it is estimated that there are about 60,000 babies in Gaza who are vaccinated under normal conditions, but to a large extent from the services They have been deprived of medicine.

He added that the vaccination process will be difficult because most of the population of Gaza has been driven from their homes and hundreds of thousands of people are in tents or other temporary shelters.

The ministry added that the vaccines for rubella, polio, measles and mumps come from sources purchased by the Palestinian Ministry of Health and also donated by the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF. .

Gaza ended the year 2023 with a devastating war that started on October 7th, and the number of its victims until Sunday, December 31st, was 21,822 martyrs. It is stated that most of them are women and children.

Edinburgh University professor wrote in a note about the consequences of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, which was published in the Guardian newspaper, that many civilians In the Gaza Strip, they may be killed “not only by bullets” but also by health problems.

This English university professor stated: 160 children are killed in Gaza every day, and this is the bloodiest conflict in modern history for children, and this number is much higher than the civilian casualties in Syria, Afghanistan, and Ukraine.

He pointed to the population of about two million people in Gaza and added: If no change is made, next year the world will face the death of nearly half a million people, which is nearly a quarter of the population of Gaza.

Earlier, the United Nations and the World Health Organization announced that the lives of tens of thousands of people in Gaza are at risk due to various infectious and contagious diseases.

According to the head of the World Health Organization, respiratory infections and diarrhea are among the most common diseases that have intensified in Palestinian refugee shelters. According to the statistics provided, currently about 180,000 Palestinian refugees suffer from respiratory infections, and nearly 136,000 children under the age of five in the Gaza Strip currently have diarrhea, and if not treated, large amounts of water And they lose vital minerals in their bodies at this age.

Furthermore, more than 55,000 refugees in these shelters have skin infections. Scabies and lice are infected and their number increases daily.

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