Thousands of Yemen dialysis patients risk dying: ICRC

Thousands of Yemenis suffering from renal failure risk dying unless dialysis centers in the war-torn country get more supplies and their employees receive wages, the Red Cross said on Tuesday.
AFP – Yemen’s health sector has destroyed three years of war between the Saudi-backed government and the Houthi group that controls the capital.

“25 per cent of dialysis patients in Yemen have died every year since the conflict began in 2015,” the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said.

“There is an urgent need for more dialysis supplies, dialysis machines and staff salaries to ensure that the mortality rate is not higher for 4,400 patients with kidney failure in Yemen,” the ICRC said in a statement.

“Without dialysis, the result is fatal,” said Alexander Feit, head of the ICRC delegation in Yemen.

More than 9,200 people have been killed since a Saudi-led military alliance intervened on the government side in 2015, leaving the country facing what the United Nations called the worst humanitarian disaster in the world