Saudi-led coalition did not only bombard, kill and destroy in Yemen: Report
YemenExtra
M.A.
Not only did the countries of the Saudi-led coalition bombard, kill, and destroy everything directly in Yemen.
The killing coincided with a severe geopolitical blockade involving land, sea and air, resulting in human tragedies and health problems.
All of the UN reports and organizations affiliated with the UN indicate that 12 million Yemenis cannot find the necessary health care and do not have access to it, and instead of seeking the coalition countries to ease the siege, it further deteriorated the situation when it moved the central bank from the capital Sana’a to the Saudi-held city of Aden.
After the Central Bank was transferred, salaries of millions of workers in the sector were no longer distributed. Such conditions massively affected the health sector, particularly the medicine sector. The therapeutic sector in the Health Ministry is considered the only supply of free medicine to hundreds of thousands of patients suffering from various chronic diseases.
All that remains is the help provided through the organizations, most of which are slow and long-term. In addition, these organizations are unable to sufficiently cover the needs, all this led to the recent period where thousands of patients fall as victims of this health situation.
When the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that there are 500,000 diabetic patients who do not have adequate medication, this reflects the tragedy of the drug supply program in providing the treatment they require.
When patients with “false diabetes” use an expired medication because their medicine is not made available by the ministry due to the siege and aggression, this illustrates to the whole world what kind of tragedy these patients are undergoing. Not to forget the deaths of thousands of kidney transplants and kidney failure because of the lack of appropriate medicines for them and other patients.
We are talking about a very large health tragedy and victims that are twice the victims of US-backed Saudi bombardment launched by warplanes and warships.
About 120 medicines were classified for chronic diseases and other diseases related to the heart, liver, blood, genetics, cancer, etc.
The stores of the Ministry of Public Health and Population have run out of these medications while the patients are left between two fires; the cost of the medication as they remain without salaries for 28 months due to transferring the Central Bank to Saudi-held Aden, and the other fire is embodied in their paitence over pain as they silently die at one of their houses’ corners. As this victim is buried, yet another war crime perpetrated by the Saudi-led coalition is buried and neglected by the world.
The hospitals and centers of Yemen are almost free of essential medicines and emergency solutions, especially in those provinces which are witnessing the injury of civilians around the clock as a result of the continuous Saudi shelling of cities, houses and markets of Yemen topped by the provinces of Hodeidah, Saadah and Hajjah.
Many tragedies are taking place around the clock in Yemen as it remains under siege and aggression. The tragedy grows day after day and hour after hour. Every passing minute, the situation becomes more catastrophic comparing to the tragedies of the past, especially when we currently know that a child dies every ten minutes.
These catastrophes can be endlessly described by a writer’s pen before the eyes and ears of the international community and the conscience of the world without a real and effective movement to alleviate the tragedy of 30 million Yemeni people under the aggression and the US-Saudi blockade since 26 March 2015 to this moment.