Local Editor

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières [MSF] released a fact sheet on Yemen for August 2015 revealing the following highlights on Friday: 

Highlights

• Large civilian populations remain in towns and villages in Sa’ada and north Amran governorates, near the Saudi border. Many health facilities have been damaged or destroyed, medical staff have fled, and transport is extremely challenging due to high fuel prices and insecurity on the roads.

• Support has been provided to some 23,000 internally displaced people [IDPs] in Amran and Hajjah governorates. Activities include general medical consultations, water provision and sanitation, and distribution of non-food items and hygiene kits.

• On 6 July, 68 wounded coming from an air strike in an Aahem market were stabilised at the Beni Hassan health centre supported by MSF and were referred to the Hajjah and Hodeida hospitals.

• On 20th July, in Al-Dhale governorate air strikes from early morning until mid-day targeted a school, a gas station and a playground. The Emergency Room in the MSF supported hospital received 14 civilians, among them a child dead on arrival to the hospital.

• Out of 20 major medical infrastructures in Taiz governorate, 15 are closed and the remaining hospitals are overloaded. And out of eight urban women and children health centres, six are totally closed and only one is functional but not running fully because of the lack of fuel.