The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that it will send more than one million poliovirus doses to Gaza. According to the UN, other motion sicknesses have also spread widely.
The Gaza Ministry of Health has declared a polio epidemic in the Gaza Strip. The news channel tells about it Al-Jazeera.
The ministry says on the messaging service Telegram that the situation poses a health risk to the residents of Gaza as well as neighboring countries.
According to the Ministry of Health, the epidemic has been able to break out because of Israel’s military operations. It calls for “immediate intervention to end the attack and find radical solutions”. As a result of the war, there is a shortage of drinking water and hygiene products in Gaza, the sewage networks have been damaged and a huge amount of waste has accumulated in the residential areas.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that it is sending more than one million poliovirus doses to Gaza, which are to be distributed in the coming weeks. With this, WHO wants to prevent polio infections in children.
The polio virus was found in waste water samples taken from Gaza last week.
The highly contagious poliovirus is most commonly spread orally from feces. Polio can cause, among other things, paralysis. The number of polio infections worldwide has decreased by 99 percent since 1988 thanks to mass vaccination.
The Israeli army has announced that it will begin giving polio vaccines to its soldiers fighting in Gaza.
The UN reported last week that, in addition to polio, hepatitis A, dysentery and gastroenteritis, an inflammation of the digestive tract, have spread widely due to the war.