Yemen Needs Daily Medical Flight Departing from Sana’a Int. Airport for One Year
Head of the Supreme Medical Committee, Dr. Mutahar Al-Darwish, stressed that Yemen needs a daily flight for a year to save the lives of thousands of patients and to overcome the disaster created by the siege over the past seven years
“1,200 patients with their helpers traveled through 15 flights provided by the truce, noting that they constitute only 2% of the total patients in need of treatment abroad,” he said. “35% of patients who need treatment abroad are children, 80% of them have congenital heart defects,” he added.
The head of the Supreme Medical Committee also indicated that 40% of patients who need treatment abroad are women, breast and thyroid cancers top the list of diseases.
In early April, the UN envoy to Yemen announced a UN-sponsored humanitarian truce for a period of two months. The truce, meant to halt all military operations in the country and bring the foreign military invasion to an end, came into effect on April 2.
The deal stipulates halting offensive military operations, including cross-border attacks, and allowing fuel-laden ships to enter Yemen’s lifeline Hodeidah port and commercial flights in and out of the airport in the capital Sana’a “to predetermined destinations in the region.”
Nearly a month has passed for the entry into effect of the humanitarian and military truce brokered by the UN, but without significant progress.
The airport is still deserted and has not received any flights, in light of the obstacles created by the coalition of aggression. The past few weeks was supposed to witness at least two commercial flights a week to and from Sana’a International Airport.
Well-informed sources in Sana’a say that there are complications by the aggression side, in light of its insistence on taking over the issuance of passports and visas.
The matter also applies to the port of Hodeidah. While the countries of aggression were supposed to facilitate the smooth flow of ships to the port, under the truce, the inspecting ships are still subject to inspection, and are detained off the coast of Jizan despite obtaining UN permits and licenses.
On the ground, the fires of the aggression side did not subside along the fronts, on the borders and inside. Shelling, reconnaissance, development and crawl, including a failed advance carried out by mercenaries towards Army and Popular Committee sites south of Marib.
All indicators do not serve the steadfastness of the humanitarian and military truce, and provide evidence that Sana’a continues to exercise restraint, in the face of heterogeneous parties that do not abide or respect their commitments to a truce sponsored by the UN.