– What?There was a hospital in Times of Yemen, a 25-year-old mother, pregnant and two children, standing motionless after one bullet was left in her spine. She had remained trapped in her home, without food and water for two days.
The UN and aid agencies suggest health needs in the besieged city of Taiz are critical because of severe drug shortages, oxygen, surgical gloves, anesthetics and fuel. According to the Red Cross, hospitals near Yemen’s front lines are facing a large influx of patients, treating up to 700 wounded from the war within a single week.
Amal al-Sabri indicated that he was wounded by a sniper’s bullet in the village of al-Shaqb é, located on the slopes of Mount Sabir, from which the city of Taiz is seen as the escalation of fighting between the Saudi-backed government and the Saudi-related Houth movement is causing devastating consequences for civilians.
Doctors at Al-Tawra Hospital in Taiz said they could not conduct a scan, as she was in the fourth month of pregnancy.
The gun came in from the side and is now stuck near the spine. They could not remove it because of the fetus, Sabri told the Reuters agency. Now I’m giving up on the fetus. )
The Taiz province, which houses about half of the newly displaced 281,000 people in Yemen since early August, has remained largely isolated since 3 October. Fighting has hampered the introduction of humanitarian aid as well as the evacuation of civilians from the area.
According to the Red Cross, in Taiz, Marib, and along the Red Sea coast, the highest number of victims are being recorded; patients arrive in hospitals with gunshot wounds and complex injuries caused by the blast.
The health system throughout Yemen is on the verge of collapse, Red Cross spokesman Hachem Osiran said.
He stressed that even prior to recent fighting, more than 40% of hospitals and health facilities in the country were already closed or operated only partially as a result of years of prolonged conflict. There are also concerns about the outbreak of disease as water decreases and waste is being collected in the streets.
