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Saudi Embargo Murdered 10,000 Yemeni Patients

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

Saudi Embargo Murdered 10,000 Yemeni Patients

"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, quoted by Yemeni media.

He added that the statistics of the Ministry of Health confirmed the need for 75 thousand cases of treatment abroad annually.

Dr. Al Kuhlani pointed out 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 Sanaa. "The effects of the siege are not limited to patients", he added.

For his part, Khalid Al-Shayef, Director General of Sanaa 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 cannot travel abroad due to the forced closure of Sana'a Airport by the forces of the coalition.

Saudi Arabia and its allies placed the embargo in March 2015, as they also launched a bloody military campaign against Yemen.

According to the latest tallies by a Yemeni monitoring group, the Saudi attacks had so far left over 12,000 civilians martyred.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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