Health Authorities: Emergency and First Aid Sector at Risk of Complete Halt within Days

The Deputy Director General of the Emergency and First Aid Sector at the Ministry of Health, Abdulkarim Al-Nahari, confirmed that the sector entered the critical stage and is now two weeks away from the almost complete halt.

Al-Nahari told Almasirah, Saturday, that the emergency and first aid departments consume 2 million 900 thousand liters of diesel per month in public and private hospitals, while ambulances consume 200 thousand liters of gasoline.

“Yemen Petroleum Company provided the sector with 50% of the required quantity per month and informed us that its diesel depletion is running out due to the continued detention for oil ships by the aggression,” he explained.

Al-Nahari pointed out that the sector has 500 ambulances operating in hospitals, performing 1700  medical emergency per month and consuming 200 thousand liters of gasoline.

“It is at risk of stopping,” he added, stressing at the same time that the depletion of oil derivatives in the emergency departments in hospitals will lead to the death toll rising to about 500 deaths per day.

He expected the death rate to rise to 300 cases per day if the ambulances stopped between hospitals and governorates due to the lack of gasoline.

He affirmed that the oxygen plant in Al-Thawra Hospital in Sana’a had stopped working last week and restarted it with the availability of diesel, and that today it faces the specter of a final halt.