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Yemen Conflict – WHO calls for urgent scaled up health response

DT-Pakistan Report

Sun. 10 May 2015

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CAIRO, Egypt- As the humanitarian and health situation in Yemen continues to deteriorate, WHO (World Health Organization) called for increased access for a scaled-up health response and an end to ongoing attacks on health care workers and health facilities.

Quoting WHO representative for Yemen, Dr Ahmed Shadoul, a press release of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office on health situation in Yemen said: “The demand for support inside the country is huge, but health care workers and health facilities are under regular and constant threat, and this insecurity is preventing an effective health response.”

According to the WHO focal points in Yemen, health staff and ambulances carrying patients are constantly at risk of attack. In Sa’ada governorate, a number of health staff had left their duty stations due to fear of attacks on health facilities.

On 19 April, Al-Safa’a private hospital in Hajja governorate was hit, and health facilities have also been destroyed in Aden governorate. The WHO warehouse in Aden is being targeted by snipers who are preventing staff from entering the building and the WHO office was attacked several times. The Ministry of Health’s emergency operations room in Aden remains closed as a result of an earlier attack.

“Health is neutral and should not be violated or invaded,” says Dr Shadoul. “Health care workers and health facilities must continue to function, and medical supplies must be delivered to where they are needed most. We need to be able to respond to the urgent health needs of affected men, women and children without risk.”

WHO urged all parties involved in the conflict in Yemen to respect and protect the integrity of health systems and to ensure that health personnel, patients and facilities are protected and that patients are guaranteed their basic right to health without further endangerment to their lives.

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