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STORY: WHO / GAZA POLIO VACCINATION DAY 3
TRT: 03:03
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 03 SEPTEMBER 2024, GAZA
03 SEPTEMBER 2024, AL MOFTI UNRWA SCHOOL, AL-NUSEIRAT, GAZA
1. Various shots, WHO convoy
2. Various shots, WHO team unloading vaccine from vehicles and walking up towards the school
3. SOUNDUP (English) Dr Athanasios Gargavanis, Trauma surgeon and Emergency officer, World Health Organization (WHO):
“Good morning gentlemen. Additional supplies; 1, 2, 3. So all is good? Perfect. We’ll get them inside. Thank you very much, gentlemen.”
03 SEPTEMBER 2024, AL-MAGHAZI CLINIC, AL-MAGHAZI, GAZA
4. Driving shot, WHO convoy heading towards clinic
5. Wide shot, people lining up for vaccination
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Athanasios Gargavanis, Trauma surgeon and Emergency officer, World Health Organization (WHO):
“There are numerous locations outside, of the agreed zone of cessation of hostilities, that require special coordination to be accessed. A huge number of the population is residing there. WHO is doing a special coordination to reach these areas and secure the safe vaccination of all children under 10 years old.”
7. Med shot, WHO team talking to local health workers
8. Med shot, baby being given polio vaccination
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Al-Qudari, health worker, Ministry of Health:
“Today we have just received the vaccinations from the World Health Organization, and we are starting to immediately vaccinate children against a new disease that has spread in the Gaza strip which is polio. By God's will this vaccination will protect our children—from the age of one day until the age of ten years—from polio. Vaccination is very important, and we thank all those in charge of this campaign from the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization and by God's we will hope to reach all the children in the community. Thank you very much.”
03 SEPTEMBER 2024, MAGHAZI BOYS PREP SHOOL "A", AL-MAGHAZI, GAZA
10. Driving shot, WHO convoy
11. Wide shot, WHO team walking towards school
12. Various shots, WHO team and local health workers inspecting the vaccine
03 SEPTEMBER 2024, AL-BUREIJ GIRLS' ELEMENTARY MIXED SCHOOL, AL-BUREIJ, GAZA
13. Various shots, WHO team arriving, removing vaccine containers from vehicle, and walking to school
14. Various shots, WHO team and local health workers inspecting the vaccine
15. Wide shot, WHO team walking back to their vehicle.
The first phase of polio vaccination in central Gaza is complete. Over 189,000 children under the age of ten were vaccinated, well over the target of 156,500.
WHO and partners conducted special missions to reach children just outside the agreed areas for humanitarian pauses.
