Childhood in Yemen Most Affected by Aggression, International Organizations
Yemen: Translated from YPA
The war has affected a wide sector of society, by the siege policy that the coalition forces have been practicing.
The childhood sector was and is still is the most affected sector, through the shocking numbers of innocent lives that have gone as a result of the ongoing conflict since March 2015, whether the victims whom the aggression bombed in their homes or those who lost their lives as a result of the lack of medicine and food, or those who were displaced from the fighting places to live in harsh conditions when they lay on the ground and cover by the sky.
The result of the aggression is causing this sector by group of diseases that were difficult to overcome due to displacement of large numbers of people to remote places where the required health care services are not available.
According to the statements of the spokesman for the Ministry of Health Dr. Youssef Al-Hadhri, more than 27 children out of 1,000 newborns die annually, which reveals the disaster threatening the future of a generation that is caused by the coalition countries on Yemen.
Wathiq Ahmed, a citizen from Dhamar, took his pregnant wife to the general hospital in the city, and the nursing staff informed him that his newborn suffers from respiratory diseases and needs to be transferred to the premature babies’ department until his condition stabilizes.
Only three days passed until death was the fate of the child, as is the case with thousands of other babies who lost their lives because the health system is unable to provide its services in the most appropriate manner after the depletion of its medical stocks.
With the continuation of the blockade and the not allowing basic supplies entry such as food and medicine, the future of Yemeni children remains in the wind, especially as they do not get their right to have good health care and receive routine immunization doses, in addition to the problems caused by the entry of shipments of spoiled food or expired vaccines, And the lack of sufficient quantities of solutions for patients with kidney failure, diabetes, liver and other chronic diseases.
Despite the voices warning of an imminent disaster for children in Yemen, international organizations have not acted, revealing the falsehood of their claims, as only a very small amount of aids reach the health care facilities that do not meet the minimum required level of maternal and child care. Hospitals now lack the most basic capabilities, especially the incubators for premature babies who suffer from congenital deformities due to the forbidden weapons that have been used by the aggression.