Some 10,000 Yemenis Died as a Result of the Saudi Siege: Ministry of Health

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M.A.

The Ministry of Health announced that 10,000 Yemenis died as a result of being prevented from traveling abroad for treatment due to the suffocating siege imposed by the forces of the Saudi-led coalition on Yemen.

“We have witnessed the deaths of nearly 10,000 cases of illness as a result of the continued aggression, siege and continued hostile restrictions on Sana’a International Airport,” said Dr. Abdel Hakim Al Kuhlani, spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population.

He added that the statistics of the Ministry of Health confirms the need for 75 thousand cases of treatment abroad annually, saying that the coalition committed a compound crime by first targeting Yemenis, second preventing them from traveling to receive treatment third halting the entry of some medicines and last but not the least the continued imposing of the siege for more than two years. One of the struggling hospitals is the General Al-Thawrah Hospital in the capital Sana’a, which undergoes a severe shortage of basic and medicinal health supplies.

“The children with congenital malformations are dying because of the blockade on Yemen and their incapability to travel abroad,” said Dr. Abu Zeid al-Kindi, head of cardiac surgery section at Al-Thawra General Hospital in Sana’a. “The effects of the siege are not limited to patients”, he added.

For his part, Khalid Al-Shayef, Director General of Sana’a International Airport, stated that “the number of stranded abroad reached 100 thousand Yemenis, including a large part of them being patients, while 300 thousand others can not travel abroad due to the forced closure of Sana’a Airport by the forces of the coalition.