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STORY: UNICEF / GAZA POLIO VACCINATION
TRT: 02:27
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: VARIOUS DATES, DEIR AL BALAH, GAZA
01 SEPTEMBER 2024, DEIR AL BALAH, GAZA
1. Various shots, families in the Gaza Strip take their children to medical clinics in the Az Zawayda area to receive Oral Polio Vaccination as health workers have started administering the vaccines
2. Various shots, cold storage equipment filled with the Polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) ready to be administered to children in the Gaza strip. The vaccination campaign is expected to run for the coming days, aiming to ensure reach, particularly in low-coverage areas.
02 SEPTEMBER 2024, DEIR AL BALAH, GAZA
3. Med shot, health workers and UNICEF staff administering polio vaccines at the Az Zawayda Clinic in the central Gaza Strip.
01 SEPTEMBER 2024, DEIR AL BALAH, GAZA
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nurse Amal:
“We are sending a message to hesitant parents: The vaccine is safe whether the child has a fever or is sick. The vaccine is only two drops in the mouth, but it protects him from permanent paralysis.”
6. Wide shot, the entrance of the Deir al-Balah medical center in the Gaza Strip. Teams operate daily from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., with mobile units extending their reach across the area
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Talin, resident:
“I was injured in the war and I am here today to receive the vaccination. I am happy that the vaccination is available. I was afraid of the bombing while I was going to receive the vaccination.”
8. Various shots, families in the Gaza Strip take their children to medical clinics to receive Oral Polio Vaccination against Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip.
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salam, resident:
“They [children] need to be vaccinated, for fear of epidemics and diseases. The situation in the shelters is very difficult and diseases are widespread, and I must protect the lives of my children because there is no treatment or aid or even hospitals that can deal with the spread of any disease.”
10. Med shot, a sign at the entrance of a medical clinic in Deir al-Balah in Arabic reads, “The emergency campaign to vaccinate children against polio in the Gaza Strip”, the clinic’s personnel
A polio vaccination campaign was launched on the 1st of September 2024 across the Gaza Strip, to prevent the spread of circulating variant type 2 poliovirus (cVDPV2).
The vaccination campaign is expected to run for the coming days, aiming to ensure reach, particularly in low-coverage areas. Teams operate daily --from 6:00 am to 2:00 pm, with mobile units extending reach across the area.
UNICEF, in collaboration with the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), and partners, has delivered 1,230,000 doses of oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) into Gaza, along with vaccine carriers, refrigerators, and cold boxes.
An additional 400,000 doses are expected to enter the Gaza Strip in the coming days. These doses will be sufficient to deliver two rounds of vaccines to over 640,000 children under ten years of age.
