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KSrelief Provides Over 1 Million Liters of Water in Yemen’s Hodeidah in January

KSrelief continues its comprehensive water and environmental sanitation project in the Khokha district of Hodeidah governorate - SPA
KSrelief continues its comprehensive water and environmental sanitation project in the Khokha district of Hodeidah governorate - SPA
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KSrelief Provides Over 1 Million Liters of Water in Yemen’s Hodeidah in January

KSrelief continues its comprehensive water and environmental sanitation project in the Khokha district of Hodeidah governorate - SPA
KSrelief continues its comprehensive water and environmental sanitation project in the Khokha district of Hodeidah governorate - SPA

The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) continues its comprehensive water and environmental sanitation project in the Khokha district of Hodeidah governorate.
During the week of January 24 to 30, the KSrelief provided 637,000 liters of household water and also pumped 623,000 liters of safe drinking water into storage reservoirs in the district, SPA reported.
Within the project, 27 waste transportation activities from displacement camps, two sewage drying operations and one water quality inspection operation were carried out.
These efforts have benefited a total of 9,800 individuals.

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WHO Sends Over 1 Mln Polio Vaccines to Gaza to Protect Children 

Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, look out from a window as they take shelter, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, July 24, 2024. (Reuters)
Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, look out from a window as they take shelter, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, July 24, 2024. (Reuters)
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WHO Sends Over 1 Mln Polio Vaccines to Gaza to Protect Children 

Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, look out from a window as they take shelter, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, July 24, 2024. (Reuters)
Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, look out from a window as they take shelter, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, July 24, 2024. (Reuters)

The World Health Organization is sending more than one million polio vaccines to Gaza to be administered over the coming weeks to prevent children being infected after the virus was detected in sewage samples, its chief said on Friday.

"While no cases of polio have been recorded yet, without immediate action, it is just a matter of time before it reaches the thousands of children who have been left unprotected," Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in an opinion piece in Britain's The Guardian newspaper.

He wrote that children under five were most at risk from the viral disease, and especially infants under two since normal vaccination campaigns have been disrupted by more than nine months of conflict.

Poliomyelitis, which is spread mainly through the fecal-oral route, is a highly infectious virus that can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis. Cases of polio have declined by 99% worldwide since 1988 thanks to mass vaccination campaigns and efforts continue to eradicate it completely.

Israel's military said on Sunday it would start offering the polio vaccine to soldiers serving in the Gaza Strip after remnants of the virus were found in test samples in the enclave.

Besides polio, the UN reported last week a widespread increase in cases of Hepatitis A, dysentery and gastroenteritis as sanitary conditions deteriorate in Gaza, with sewage spilling into the streets near some camps for displaced people.