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STORY: WHO / GAZA POLIO CAMPAIGN CONTINUATION
TRT: 04:27
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 05 SEPTEMBER 2024, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA
1. Wide shot, view from the front seat of a UN vehicle showing destroyed buildings and roads around Khan Younis
2. Various shots, families with their children waiting to receive their polio vaccination, children receiving their vaccination at Japanese Clinic, UNRWA primary healthcare centre
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Richard Peeperkorn, Representative, occupied Palestinian territory, WORLD HEALTH Organization (WHO):
“Currently, all the teams are focusing on the southern zone of Gaza and we are here in Khan Younis. We are actually at the UNRWA Primary Health Care Centre, the Japanese primary health care centres, and it is really getting crowded, crowded with families, mothers, fathers with their children. Everybody is out to get a polio vaccine. So, over the coming three days, probably three days plus one, we have a target of at least 340,000 children.”
4. Close up shot, children receiving their vaccination
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amed Alia, father of vaccinated children:
“When the vaccination campaign began, we immediately went to vaccinate the children, especially after the official announcement made by the World Health Organization of the discovery of the polio virus (in Gaza). We thank all the UN institutions in general, and health workers in particular, and the WHO for this vaccination campaign; that will eliminate most of the spread of the polio virus. Many thanks to the WHO for organizing the vaccination campaign.”
6. Various shots, children receiving their vaccination as more families queue up to receive theirs at Japanese Clinic, UNRWA primary healthcare centre
7. Close up shot, polio vaccine being retrieved from a cool box
8. Close up shot, polio vaccine tally sheet being filled in
9. Close up shot, Arabic vaccine information leaflet
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Afnan Fayez Al-Dasouqi, vaccinator:
“Of course, the vaccination is very safe, it’s only two drops in the mouth that will go directly through the intestines, and by God’s will, no one will get infected of this disease. The second dose of this vaccination is in four weeks, for more safety, and for none of us to get infected.”
11. Wide shot, lots of people waiting to be vaccinated at Japanese Clinic
12. Various shots, a street of Khan Younis and different levels of destruction
13. Med shot, water sewage works signage
14. Various shots, the WHO team and partners donning protective clothing, preparing equipment, lowering a bucket into sewage water before transferring the sample to a secure container for transit to the lab
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Deepak Kumar, Technical Officer, WHO:
“WHO and Ministry of Health in Gaza, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, is going to collect sewage samples from seven epidemiologically relevant such sites across Gaza. This is one of those sites from where samples will be collected, stored, transported to WHO accredited polio lab for testing for polioviruses.”
16. Various shots, WHO warehouse, the samples being checked before being sent on for analysis
Vaccination in southern Gaza is ongoing. Preliminary data shows that around 161,200 children under ten were vaccinated on the first day of the campaign in southern Gaza.
Since the campaign began on September 1, over 354,700 children have been vaccinated.
As part of the polio outbreak response, WHO is supporting to strengthen surveillance.
Recently environmental samples have been collected for testing.
