Six months after numbers of children with measles surged, Dr Ei Ei Khaing, MSF clinical team leader in Taiz Houban mother and child hospital, describes efforts to tackle the life-threatening disease. “I have seen firsthand how the current surge in measles cases is affecting children in MSF’s hospital here in Taiz Houban in Yemen. Although […]
Read More… from Yemen: “The upsurge in measles cases shows no sign of abating”
Eight years into the conflict, the war in Yemen is impacting every area of life for people in the district of Ad Dahi. Canadian doctor Matt Cloutier is part of a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team there. “It was my first week working as an ER doctor in a rural hospital in […]
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Malnutrition is a persistent risk to children in Yemen. The country sees seasonal and annual peaks, usually linked to the lean season caused by the disruption of agricultural production in rural areas. This pattern was seen before the escalation of the war in late 2014, but it has worsened due to the direct and […]
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“We don’t have blankets to cover ourselves,” says Aafia, one of thousands internally displaced people sheltering in Yemen’s Marib governorate. “My children have no warm clothes and I don’t have enough food to feed them. I don’t have a house made of bricks; it’s only a tent, which doesn’t even stop the wind during cold […]
Read More… from Yemen: Thousands desperate for help in conflict-hit Marib
An air strike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition on Sa’ada City Remand Prison in the early hours of January 21, 2021 has killed at least 82 people and injured 266, according to the Ministry of Health, with the death toll likely to increase as researchers still comb the rubble. Two Doctors Without Borders/Médecins sans […]
In the Hajjah governorate and its surrounding areas, in northwestern Yemen, the nearly seven-year long war has exacerbated malnutrition.
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Missile attacks in the residential area of Rawdah Jadidah in Marib governorate on Sunday, October 3, 2021, have injured multiple civilians, and killed at least four people, including two young children, said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). MSF staff working in the emergency department of Marib General Hospital, in conjunction with other hospital staff, treated […]
Read More… from Yemen: MSF deeply concerned over civilians affected by conflict in Marib
“The constant fear and the feeling of being close to death is horrific. We have been bombarded with shells. A shell once hit my sister and injured one of her eyes.”
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Read More… from Yemen: Seeking healthcare in a city split by a frontline
MSF is seeing a dramatic influx of critically ill COVID-19 patients requiring hospitalization in Aden and many other parts of the country.
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Dotted across Marib governorate, in northeast Yemen, are 134 camps – temporary home to Yemenis displaced from their homes by the six-year-long conflict, African migrants stranded in Yemen, and members of a vulnerable minority group from Yemen known as Al-Muhamasheen. Before the start of the conflict, Marib was home to almost 400,000 people, according to […]
Read More… from Yemen: Health needs grow in former safe haven of Marib