The Cradle, News Desk, August 7
https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-preventing-entry-of-over-one-million-polio-vaccines-into-gaza
The Palestinian Health Ministry accused Israel on 7 August of
preventing the entry of over a million desperately needed polio
vaccines into the Gaza Strip.
“The Gaza Strip needs 1.3 million doses of polio vaccine … Israel is
still refusing to allow vaccines into the Strip,” said Musa Abed,
Director of Health Care at the ministry.
. . .
“There is an imminent epidemiological catastrophe in the Gaza Strip as
a result of the outbreak of waterborne or respiratory diseases. There
are more than 100,000 cases of epidemic hepatitis … in the year before
the [Israeli] aggression there were only 85 cases in the entire Gaza
Strip,” Palestinian Health Minister Majed Abu Ramadan warned on 4
August.
“The most dangerous thing we are suffering from is the possibility of
an epidemic outbreak of Polio in the Gaza Strip,” the health minister
added.
Thursday’s health ministry warning came after the World Health
Organization (WHO) said it would send one million polio vaccines to
the devastated enclave.
On 18 July, the Health Ministry released a statement warning of
poliovirus in Gaza, which was found in sewage sampling tests
undertaken in coordination with UNICEF. The ministry said that the
presence and spread of poliovirus is caused by the overcrowding of
displaced persons, the destruction of health and sanitation
infrastructure, and the shortage of medical and cleaning supplies. It
warned that this poses a threat to thousands of Gazans and called for
an immediate end to the war, the provision of safe water, and the
repair of sewage lines that were destroyed by Israeli forces.
Days later, the Israeli army announced a campaign to provide its
troops in Gaza with polio vaccines while leaving Palestinians
unprotected from the disease.
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