Ministry of Health: Ending Oil Derivatives Lead to Major Disaster

Ministry of Public Health and Population sounded the alarm about ending the oil derivatives in the health sector, which portends a humanitarian catastrophe as a result of the continued siege by the coalition countries. 

The coalition prevents tankers loaded with diesel and petroleum from reaching Hodeidah port to provide hospitals and other governmental and private health facilities with their requirements and needs.

The Ministry of Health denounced in a statement on Friday the intransigence of the coalition countries to prevent ships from entering Yemen, although they were inspected and authorized by the United Nations.

The statement stressed that the health sector entirely depends on oil derivatives whether to provide all medical, diagnostic and therapeutic devices with electric power, or for the movement of ambulances and emergency transport of doctors, paramedics and health workers.

In its statement, the Ministry of Health blamed the coalition countries and their regimes for the deaths that occur for hundreds every day due to the deterioration of the health situation as a result of their aggression and blockade.

It sent an urgent distress call to the international community, UN and international organizations to move quickly and pressure the coalition countries to lift the ban on these and other ships, especially as they are all subject to UN inspection and there is no justification for these hostile actions.