Yemen National Blood Bank Faces Threat of Closure
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The director of Yemen's national blood bank said the facility could shut down within a week after a medical aid charity ended its support.
Ayman el-Shihari, the blood bank's general director, said Thursday its closure could lead to a "humanitarian catastrophe." He said the facility receives up to 3,000 cases monthly, including patients with cancer, thalassemia, kidney failure and war wounds.
El-Shihari says Doctors Without Borders, known by the French acronym MSF, ended its two-year funding and asked the World Health Organization to help. He says so far the clinic has received none and supplies are running out.
Yemen has been crippled by a two-year aggression by a US-backed Saudi-led coalition.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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