5 December 2021 – The conflict in Yemen has taken a dreadful toll on the health infrastructure. Almost 7 years of active conflict has impaired the availability and quality of health services to the most vulnerable. Leaving over 20 million civilians in need of health assistance. If that is not enough, the emergence of COVID-19 has exacerbated existing...

22 November 2021, Aden, Yemen - The World Health Organization (WHO) has joined efforts with the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group and the Ministry of Public Health and Population to construct 14 new oxygen production stations that will save lives from the COVID-19 pandemic in Yemen. The oxygen production stations, valued at over US$ 3.4...

21 November 2021 - In Yemen today, over 2.25 million children under age 5 are estimated to suffer from acute malnutrition. Fortunately, thousands of these children are being nourished from the brink of death back to health – at 92 WHO-supported therapeutic feeding centers (TFCs) across Yemen.  Read the full story Arabic version fo the story

10 October 2021 - Human malaria is the most common vector-borne disease in Yemen, with approximately 65% of the total population at risk of infection. In response, WHO is supporting volunteer health workers with rapid diagnostic tests, medicines and training needed to detect and treat malaria cases, and to educate communities about malaria...

Monther began working in the Al Sadakah isolation unit of Aden’s Al Sadakah hospital in April 2021 3 October 2021 – “I have asked to be among the frontline health workers fighting against COVID19. I want to serve humanity and this is the least I can do”. Monther Haider, 30, recalled this stressful conversation with his mother. “She began crying...

29 September 2021 – “Imagine a mother handing over her own child to you and saying, “This is my child, she is sick, please take care of her”, said Najat Saleh, a neonatal health specialist at the Al Sadakah hospital in Aden governorate.  Najat began working at Al Sadakah hospital in 1986, joining its neonatal care department in early 2021. “As a mother,...

Al Sadaqa hospital, Aden. Thabit is one of the health care workers on the frontlines responding to COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic 7 September 2021 – Thabit Ali is a health care worker at at Al Sadaqqa hospital in Aden, where he has been working for the past 4 years. When the hospital’s isolation unit became operational, Thabit was...

Sana'a, 23 August 2021 – The World Health Organization (WHO) country office in Yemen denies what has been reported in some local media concerning the 2020 suspension of the “medical airbridge” project for Yemeni patients. The WHO Yemen country office also wishes to clarify the following points about this project: This project was implemented by...

5 August 2021 – Two months ago, Ali Mothana was battling for his life in a COVID-19 isolation unit in Al Sadakah hospital in Aden after being infected with the COVID-19 virus. “When I was rushed to the hospital, I was suffering from unbearable pain, and my condition was extremely difficult,” recounted Ali, 64. “I thought that it was the end, and...

14 July 2021 – In the midst of a humanitarian crisis and a health system debilitated by years of conflict, incessant epidemics and the recent COVID-19 pandemic aggravating the situation further. WHO and the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) are working together to fill critical gaps and strengthen preparedness and response to...