Details: UN Fails to Save a Sick Child’s Life in Yemen

YemenExtra

M.A.

The girl, Amira Abdullah Al-Zaidi, was killed today after bitter suffering from a disease resulting from weakness in the valves of the heart. Her condition further deteriorated as a result of the Saudi-led coalition refusing to give her permission to travel abroad along with her family for treatment.

The director of the district of Serwah, Merai al-Amri told the Yemeni Saba News Agency that the local authority requested the United Nations Office in Sana’a to intervene and allow the family of the girl Amira Zaidi to be taken out of the country for treatment because of the critical health situation in accordance with the decision of doctors in Sana’a hospitals.

He stressed that the Saudi-led coalition rejected the request of the United Nations to permit the travel of Amira, who suffers from weak heart valves due to cluster bombs and poisonous gases that the US-backed coalition dropped on Serwah.

Al-Amiri considered the death of Amira a disgrace to the United Nations, which failed to save the life of Amira, as well as the lives of thousands of Yemeni patients who died as a result of the enforced closure of Sana’a International Airport by the Saudi-led coalition on 8 August 2016.