UN: Yemen Could Be Worst Humanitarian Crisis in 50 Years

The UN’s humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock stressed that People in war-torn Yemen are facing a situation that “looks like the Apocalypse”, warning that the country could become the worst humanitarian disaster in half a century.

“The situation in Yemen, today, to the population of the country, looks like the apocalypse,” the UN’s undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator said.

“The cholera outbreak is probably the worst the world has ever seen with a million suspected cases up to the end of 2017,” Lowcock stressed.

Lowcock said “a terrible new epidemic” of diphtheria, a bacterial disease which should be completely preventable by immunization, has already “affected up to 500 people with dozens and dozens of deaths” in the past few weeks.

“That is going to spread like wildfire,” Lowcock undelined, adding that “Unless the situation changes, we’re going to have the world’s worst humanitarian disaster for 50 years”.

The World Health Organisation has also reported that almost 500 cases of diphtheria are suspected in Yemen.

Also Riyadh’s deadly campaign prevented the patients from traveling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country.