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The International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) said Wednesday that 75 per cent of Yemenis have no access to healthcare.
“There are 27 million people living in Yemen. There are 20 million people in Yemen with no access to healthcare. That’s almost 75% of the population. That’s catastrophic,” the ICRC wrote on Twitter.
In another tweet, the ICRC said, “Almost 75% of people in Yemen have no access to healthcare. Nearly 50% of health facilities in Yemen no longer function. Less than 30% of the desperately needed medicines and medical supplies are entering Yemen.”
The healthcare sector in the country has been suffering deteriorating conditions due to the continuous conflict which started five years ago between the Houthi revolutionaries and the Hadi loyalists.
Impoverished Yemen has remained in a state of war since 2014. In 2015, Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies launched a massive air campaign aimed at forcefully reinstating the resigned regime of Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the former Yemeni president.
According to UN officials, more than 90,000 people have been killed in the war, while more than 11 per cent of the country’s population has been displaced.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
