The Ministry of Health reveals catastrophic figures about the health situation in Yemen due to aggression and siege

Ibb News 1 Safar 1438 H corresponding to 21/10/2017 The Ministry of Health and Population, on Saturday, the disastrous figures on the health and humanitarian situation in Yemen caused by the aggression and the US-Saudi blockade against the Yemeni people since March 2015

A spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health and Population, Dr. Abdul Hakim Al-Kahlani said during a press conference held in the capital Sanaa, that more than 55% of hospitals and health centers went out of work because of the direct aggression against them

Al-Kahlani stressed that according to the Ministry’s non-final estimates, the economic blockade imposed on Yemen by the Saudi-American aggression led to the death of more than 14 thousand patients, noting that more than 95 thousand patients need to travel abroad for treatment

More than half a million Yemeni children suffer from malnutrition due to aggression and siege, the ministry spokesman said

More than 800,000 people have been affected by the cholera epidemic since late April, he said, confirming the death of more than 2,000 people to date in the outcome of an endless epidemic

The ministry spokesman said that according to the ministry’s non-final estimates, the losses of the health system resulted from the aggression to more than 8 billion dollars

He pointed out that the medicines and medical supplies that come to Yemen are being held by the aggression in Djibouti for months, leading to corruption

The war waged by the Saudi-led coalition and the logistical and intelligence support of the United States and Britain, accompanied by a land, air and sea blockade around Yemen, is a mass grave and a humanitarian disaster that threatens the lives of millions who can no longer meet their basic needs such as food, water and medicine.

According to independent human rights reports, air strikes have killed and injured more than 35,000 civilians, forced nearly 3 million people to flee, displaced and live in tragic conditions, directly causing the spread of diseases and epidemics such as cholera and meningitis, Baby

The reports confirmed that thousands of air strikes of the aircraft of the aggression constituted a clear violation of international humanitarian law and human rights law

It is noteworthy that despite the disastrous situation in Yemen as a result of the aggression and siege, silence is the master of the position of the international community, which obeyed the wishes of Saudi money and the language of American power, in flagrant violation of the principles of human rights, which has been praising dozens of years

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