In Two Days 20 Kidney-Failure Patients Died in Al-Mahwit Due to US-Saudi Siege
The Director of the Health Office in Al-Mahwit Governorate confirmed Saturday that the emergency services in the Republican Hospital and all other hospitals and health centers will be stopped due to preventing the arrival of fuel tankers by the US-Saudi aggression.
During a press conference at the Republican Hospital in Al-Mahwit to highlight the effects of the aggression on the health sector and the provision of health services to citizens, the Director of the Health Office in Al-Mahwit explained that the dialysis department at the Republican Hospital witnessed during the past two days the death of 20 patients with kidney failure.
For his part, the director of the Republican Hospital in Mahwit explained that the hospital was directly affected by the US-Saudi siege of the aggression, noting that the prevention of the delivery of fuel derivatives caused the closure of a number of hospital departments.
The director of the Yemeni Petroleum Company, YPC, explained, on Sunday, that the solution to the fuel crisis is to stop the US-Saudi aggression’s piracy and allow the ships to enter Hodeidah.
Ammar Al-Adhrae’e said to Almasirah TV that “there are 3 diesel ships detained off the coast of Jizan and have been subjected to the verification and inspection mechanism in Djibouti and have obtained UN permits.” He stressed that the port of Hodeidah is the artery of Yemen, and there is no other solution to the fuel crisis.
Al-Adhrae’e added, “YPC is facing the fuel crisis with an emergency plan,” noting that the adjustment in fuel selling prices is due to the change in the global stock market price, exchange rates, and delay fines resulting from the detention of ships.
He pointed out that the supplies that come from the occupied governorates are limited, and the tanks travel long distances and are subject to interruptions on the road and illegal levies.
As part of its economic war, the US-Saudi aggression worked to drain about 97% of the Yemeni state’s resources, either by controlling them militarily such as oil and gas sources, freezing Yemeni foreign assets and transferring them to mercenaries and financing coalition operations, or imposing siege on the vital port of Hodeidah and the most important port after Aden, which is still in the grip of Sana’a and out of control of the aggression.
The coalition of aggression continues to piracy, detaining fuel ships, and preventing them from entering the port of Hodeidah, despite obtaining permits from UN, which aggravates the humanitarian catastrophe due to the suspension of many vital service sectors, especially hospitals, electricity, water, cargo trucks, as well as waste trucks.