Yemen already suffers what the U.N. calls the world's most extreme humanitarian crisis. As the virus spreads, healthcare facilities lack everything from PPE for staff to beds for the ill to specialist expertise.
People wear face masks in Sanaa, Yemen, as health workers fumigate a market over concerns about the spread of COVID-19.People wear face masks in Sanaa, Yemen, as health workers fumigate a market over concerns about the spread of COVID-19.In the Yemeni city of Aden, doctors and nurses of Al-Wali Hospital and their families have become patients. With the 75 beds in this private hospital now full, members of the public are being turned away.
MSF runs the only facility dedicated to treating COVID-19 patients. It's based in Aden but cares for the sick from all across southern Yemen. From the end of April until now, just over 200 patients have been admitted, and of those close to 100 have died.The aid group said the number of deaths in Aden from the coronavirus is likely much higher.
Their relatives are falling sick, too."One of our doctors brought his mother into the clinic during the night. In the morning, she was dead," Durand said."And he is now sick."Yemen has a long list of needs: from funds to pay health care workers to supplies of protective equipment for medical staff to oxygen to help patients breathe.
Yemen already suffers what the U.N. is calling the world's most extreme humanitarian crisis. Some 24 million people – close to 80% of the population – need aid. More than 20 million people across the country are food insecure, and the country has theDespite multiple attempts at a cease-fire, the war there continues. The country is divided between the Aden-based government, which is backed by Saudi Arabia, and Houthi militias who control the capital, Sanaa, and much of the north.
Local authorities repurposed a hospital that had been defunct for two years into a treatment center for COVID-19 patients. MSF helped with the repairs and eventually took over its management. During the holy Muslim month of Ramadan that began April 23, where families, friends and neighbors gather to break the daily fast, the number of cases"just exploded," Durand said.
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