Rich countries have drastically cut down funding for Yemen where millions of people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance
This is not the first time that an alarm with a great sense of urgency has been raised for a country where already 90 percent of the 30 million population is dependent on some sort of international food assistance.
Torbay said that the Covid-19 pandemic has killed at least 150 doctors in Yemen but exact figures are hard to get by due to lack of data. “Just imagine that over 1 million pregnant women are malnourished, around 2.8 million children are malnourished including 400,000 who are severely malnourished.” It has become almost a routine to see pictures of starving children whose bones are visible coming out of Yemen. Instead of dealing with the crisis, the world powers dither.
"I remember meeting women who might have eight pregnancies but only four live births because of the lack of medical facilities,” said Alison Criado-Perez, a nurse with MSF who has worked in Marib, a region near the capital Sanaa. “At times we were looking at a hundred patients in one day,” said Alison, who along with two other MSF staff started a small clinic in Marib in October 2019.
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