Yemenis are being forced to choose between treating cholera and putting food on the table, a new report from Oxfam says, feeding an almost inescapable cycle of poor health and poverty.
There have been half a million suspected cholera cases in Yemen this year, the World Health Organisation reported earlier this week, with the country currently experiencing the biggest cholera epidemic in the world.
Auke Lootsma, the country director of the UN Development Program said via a video link on Tuesday that the UN has been facing problems delivering aid to Yemen due to the lack of cooperation from the Saudi-led coalition.
The UN operates two flights into Yemen’s Houthi held capital city Sanaa to deliver aid, from Amman and Djibouti.
A girl is treated for a suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. The World Health Organization says a rapidly spreading cholera outbreak in Yemen has claimed thousands of lives since April and is suspected of affecting 246,000 people. (AP/Hani Mohammed)
Yemen is suffering from the world’s largest cholera epidemic on record, Oxfam said on Friday morning.
(MEE) — Yemen is suffering from the world’s largest cholera epidemic on record, Oxfam said on Friday morning.
The organization documented more than 360,000 suspected cases of cholera in a three-month period, topping Haiti’s 340,000 cases after an earthquake in 2011.
Oxfam said that 2,000 people have died from the disease since the start of the outbreak in April.
Starvation and Cholera threaten the children of Yemen, even without the Saudi coalition daily bombing raids. (Photo: Twitter)
21st Century Wire says….
(MEE) — A 10-week cholera epidemic has now infected more than 300,000 people in Yemen, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Monday, a health disaster on top of war, economic collapse and near-famine in the impoverished country.
An elderly woman is treated for suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, May. 15, 2017. The U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Yemen says a cholera outbreak has killed 115 people over the past two weeks. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
(ANTIMEDIA) — According to Oxfam International, a leading charitable organization, Yemen is currently battling a cholera epidemic that is killing one person nearly every hour. Children are contracting the infection at a rate of one every 35 seconds.
In this March, 2016 photo, Udai Faisal, who is suffering from acute malnutrition, is hospitalized in Sanaa, Yemen. Udai died on March 24th. Hunger has been the most horrific consequence of Yemen’s conflict and has spiraled since Saudi Arabia and its allies, backed by the U.S., launched a campaign of airstrikes and a naval blockade. (AP/Maad al-Zikry)
