This month, the announcement that polio had re-emerged in Gaza was a devastating blow.
When there are war conflicts, the preventive health care system is the first to disappear. The health priorities are to repair and treat the sick and wounded who live in difficult and dangerous conditions. You need to set priorities.
We were not surprised to learn that polio had re-emerged and was affecting children in Gaza, a fact we deeply regret, as we have not yet eradicated this disease from the world.
We are, or were very close to doing so. We have or were 99% of the population protected. All children should continue to be vaccinated. In Rotary, all Rotarians around the world are working to achieve this goal.
We cannot leave behind all that we have achieved thanks to the programme that Rotary members began 35 years ago and led by the World Health Organization on an international scale to vaccinate children around the world against polio. Once again, war has been delayed. But this is also happening in countries where the health system is failing.
Polio, like all viruses, knows no borders. The only thing standing in their way is systematic and consistent vaccination of all children around the world.
Now, more than ever, we will continue to carry out activities to make it clear that polio still exists, a disease that paralyzes or kills children under five, that can only be prevented with a vaccine, and that after 50 years causes children to develop polio, post-polio syndrome, and that is why we need to continue to raise funds and work to get vaccines to all children in the world.
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