Rahda Hospital in Taiz Calls for Immediate Help Due to Lack Fuel

Al-Thawra General Hospital in Al-Rahda, Taiz Governorate, issued a distress call on Tuesday after some of its departments stopped working as a result of the power outage and the lack of fuel.

“The suspension of work in the hospital and its out of service portend a humanitarian catastrophe for patients,” the director of Al Rahda Hospital told Almasirah Network.

This humanitarian catastrophe comes in light of the unjust siege imposed by the forces of the US-Saudi aggression on Yemen by the continued detention of fuel ships.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE, backed by the United States and regional allies, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi back to power.

The war has left hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead and displaced millions more. It has also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases there.

According to reports by international human rights and humanitarian organizations, the health system in Yemen has been severely weakened after seven years of war and a prolonged siege. About half of the country’s health facilities are out of service as a result of their destruction by US-Saudi airstrikes, while many operating centers have very limited capacities.

Most of the population in Yemen lacks health care because of the destruction of health facilities in their areas or because of the lack of energy, medicines and medical equipment as a result of the siege imposed on them.

The fuel crisis compounded the situation and led to an almost complete paralysis of the health sector, threatening to close many of them, especially the private sector hospitals. Private hospitals in the capital, Sana’a, confirmed that the closure had become a serious issue, due to the lack of fuel.

The Ministry of Health in Sana’a has informed the international and UN organizations of the seriousness of the situation and the need for action to bring in fuel ships, and so far there is no positive sign.