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Saleh Al Sammad , President of the Supreme Political Council, called on the ministry of health, to monitor and control the geographical spread of the Cholera epidemic and work on the rapid production of intravenous solutions locally and respond quickly to the efforts of international organizations, taking into account the examination of samples of any aid arrived into the country.

Al Sammad president pointed in a meeting, which gathering General Secretary of Local Council in the Capital, minister of Health, Minister of Water and Environment, Finance Minister, on the National Salvation Government to stay in permanent sessions actively with full capacity in the operating rooms.

The meeting was devoted to discuss the epidemiological situation of cholera and its consequences on the lives and health of citizens in Yemen’s provinces and the measures that should be taken as well as the study that should be developed and evaluated for the implementation of health care in provinces; moreover siege and combating the epidemic on the other hand.

The meeting also stressed the unity of efforts and capacities to provide the required financial support locally for treatment, control, awareness.

Earlier, United Nations (UN) and the Red Cross say the Saudi-led war on and embargo against Yemen are behind a cholera epidemic.

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