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MSF: Yemen Health System in State of Collapse

MSF: Yemen Health System in State of Collapse
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Doctors Without Borders, Médecins Sans Frontières [MSF] warned on Tuesday that the health system in Yemen is in "a state of collapse," saying also that transport has been totally disrupted by the almost daily Saudi-led air raids.

 

MSF: Yemen Health System in State of Collapse

 

A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out airstrikes against Yemen since March. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the UN.

Shortages of food, medicine and health workers are acute, said Thierry Goffeau, MSF's coordinator in Yemen's second city of Aden.

"The population is faced with food shortages, the health system is in a state of collapse. I have never seen such a level of violence," he told a press conference in Paris following a 10-week mission to Yemen.

Laurent Sury, MSF's head of emergencies, said that transport has been totally disrupted by the near-daily [Saudi-led] air raids, meaning that "women needing a Caesarian die because they cannot get to a hospital in time".

"It is very difficult to get access to the population and for the population to access hospitals as a result of the bombardments and the fighting," he said.
Sury said that 20,000 people had been treated for injuries - nearly half in the nine MSF health centers, Sury said.

The charity's emergency surgery hospital and trauma clinic in the port city of Aden alone "receive nearly 350 new patients per week," he said.

Many parts of the city have been destroyed and many are without electricity and water, he further said.

He said there were still snipers, and hospitals had to set up steel plates to protect their windows.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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