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STORY: WHO / GAZA POLIO VACCINATION
TRT: 2:17
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 02 NOVEMBER 2024, GAZA
02 NOVEMBER 2024, AL DARAJ PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTRE, GAZA CITY
1. Close up, child receiving polio vaccination
2. Wide shot, busy vaccination site, vaccination team, parents, children
3. Close up, child lying on a table receiving polio vaccination
4. Close up, little finger being marked to show the child has received their vaccination
5. Close up, tally sheet being filled in
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Richard Peeperkorn, WHO Representative, occupied Palestinian territory:
“This is the start of the polio campaign, the second round in northern Gaza. The target is 119,000 children to be vaccinated, the polio vaccine and 98,000 children with vitamin A between two and ten years.”
7. Wide shot, child at the front of a long queue, receiving their polio vaccination
8. Med shot, vaccination truck arriving at the location
9. Wide shot, showing polio blue vaccination cool boxes
10. Med shot, child receiving their vitamin A shot
11. Med shot, a child receiving their polio vaccination
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mother of vaccinated child:
When they announced the polio vaccine campaign, I came to vaccinate my children, because I was afraid that they might get the virus. And we hope that it protects them against polio.
02 NOVEMBER 2024, AL DIESH PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTRE, GAZA CITY
13. Med shot, child receiving their vitamin A drops
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mother of vaccinated child:
“This vaccine is very important for protection against polio; I am protecting my child so in the future the virus doesn’t affect them.”
02 NOVEMBER 2O24, AL DARAJ PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTRE, GAZA CITY
15. Wide shot, Dr Richard Peeperkorn administering vitamin A drops to children
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Richard Peeperkorn, WHO Representative, occupied Palestinian territory:
“You see a lot of parents, a lot of children, a lot of enthusiasm and I have the feeling, at least in Gaza City, we are off to a good start.”
17. Wide shot, busy vaccination site, vaccination team, parents, children.
Phase three of the polio campaign in the north commenced on Saturday (02 Nov). 58,604 children were vaccinated on the first day of the campaign, while 45,670 children between 2-10 years received vitamin A supplement.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is extremely concerned about reports that the Sheikh Radwan primary health care centre in northern Gaza was struck on Saturday (02 Nov) while parents were bringing their children to the life-saving polio vaccination in an area where a humanitarian pause was agreed to allow vaccination to proceed. Six people, including four children, were injured. A WHO team was at the site just before. This attack, during humanitarian pause, jeopardises the sanctity of health protection for children and may deter parents from bringing their children for vaccination. These vital humanitarian-area-specific pauses must be absolutely respected.
