Medicines Transferred by Air will Run out Due to US-Saudi Blockade on Sana’a Int. Airport

The Director General of Drug Supply Storage at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Ibrahim Al-Shami, confirmed that medicines usually obtained in the refrigerator of Sana’a airport, since the closure of the airport by the US-Saudi aggression, have reached low quantities as they require special air transport and storage conditions.

Al-Shami explained that the indications of citizens’ demand for chronic diseases medicines are high and sharp in the ministry’s drug supply storage, in light of the great scarcity of these items.

He also indicated that the leadership of the Ministry of Health is trying hard to provide vital medicines to those in need, with the persistence of obstacles imposed by the coalition of aggression on the entry of medicines to Yemenis.

Head of the Export Department at the Ministry of Health storages, Dr. Abdul Nasser Al-Quraishi, said that refrigerated medicines would save the lives of people with chronic diseases, such as medicines for patients with liver disease, diabetes, blood diseases, strokes, immunity, dialysis, obstetrics and gynecology.

He also confirmed that the Ministry’s stock of multiple sclerosis patients’ medication is sufficient to treat only 6 patients, and this medication is rarely found in the local market in the various governorates in Yemen.