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The international humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), reported that seeking medical care in war-torn Yemen has become dangerous.
"Now that the violence has resumed, traveling to seek care is life-threatening," says Laurent Sury, MSF’s head of emergency programs.
From Saada province in the north to Taiz province in the south, intense airstrikes have resumed and an MSF hospital in the northern city of Abs was the latest to be hit by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike on 15 August, following the collapse of the April ceasefire agreement on August 6.
"We talk about this airstrike because MSF was present in this hospital, and this is now the fourth MSF facility that has been attacked in the last 12 months. But there are other health centers, schools, markets, bridges ... which have been attacked and destroyed by airstrikes, shelling or bombs," said Hassan Boucenine, MSF’s head of mission in Yemen.
Consequently, in the city of Haydan, located in Yemen’s northern Saada governorate, people are not traveling for health care, MSF has found.
MSF provides support to four hospitals, but access to care is limited because of security concerns. On 2 December 2015, a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit an MSF tent clinic in Taiz, killing one person wounding nine others.
With airstrikes, front line combat, and attacks like the 29 August suicide bombing in Aden, violence has fully resumed in Yemen. The population had only a few months of limited respite, and now the conflict continues to claim yet more direct and indirect victims.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
