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Saudi Arabia’s ongoing siege on Yemen is forcing the impoverished country’s health facilities to shut down amid a severe shortage of medicines and fuel.
Yousef al-Hadhri, spokesman of Yemen’s Ministry of Health, said Sunday that the Riyadh regime has been keeping fuel vessels from reaching the port of Hudaydah over the past few months.
“A number of hospitals are expected to be shut down in the near future due to the oil derivatives crisis,” he said. “International organizations do not pay serious attention to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen and are only concerned with collecting funds.”
The Health Ministry’s spokesman also said that more than 400 governmental and private hospitals in Yemen suffer from the oil derivatives crisis.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched the devastating war on Yemen in March 2015 to crush a popular uprising that had overthrown a regime friendly to Riyadh.
More than half of Yemen’s hospitals and clinics have been destroyed or closed during the war at a time when Yemenis are in desperate need of medical supplies to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: News Agencies
