- The Ministry of Health has warned of an imminent health disaster that could claim the lives of thousands of patients suffering from chronic diseases as a result of the lack of life-saving medicines.
- The Ministry of Health states that the indicators of an increase in the number of people with chronic diseases are on the rise, with scarcity of medicines for chronic diseases in its stores. Due to the closure of the Sana’a airport by the Saud-led Coalition, the Ministry and the private sector were unable to provide these medicines. On the other hand, these medicines require special and tight air transportation and storage conditions.
- The Ministry of Health confirms that life-saving refrigerated medicines needed for people with chronic diseases, such as medicines for patients with “liver, diabetes, blood diseases, clots, immunity, dialysis, obstetrics and gynecology” are not available in its stores. The Ministry’s stock of multiple sclerosis patients’ medication is sufficient to treat 6 patients only, and this drug is rarely available in the local markets in various governorates of the Republic.
- The number of out-of-school children has doubled more since the beginning of the war on Yemen, amounting to more than 2 million school-aged boys and girls by 2021. The UN also reports that some other four million children are at risk of having their education interrupted or completely dropping out of school.
- According to international and national reports, more than 3,600 schools in Yemen have been completely or partially destroyed due to the air strikes of the Saudi-led Coalition of war on Yemen.
- The Saudi-led Coalition of war on Yemen has negatively affected education, with devastating and long-lasting impacts on the psychological and physical health of children and adolescents in Yemen.
- Over 170,600 teachers have not received their salaries regularly for more than five years due to the war on Yemen and the transfer of CBY from Sana’a, the Capital Secretariat, to Aden Governorate.
- The Pentagon announced that the State Department “approved a deal to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia on October 26” containing 280 AIM-120C/7C-8 “air-to-air” missiles (AMRAAM) in a deal valued at $650 million. Undoubtedly, this confirms that the US is leading the war on Yemen and imposing a siege on the Yemeni people.
- The United States’ sale of weapons to the Saudi-led Coalition of war on Yemen clearly contradicts Biden’s pledge during his election campaign to prevent the use of American weapons in the military operations of the coalition of war on Yemen led by the US and Saudi Arabia. Such a futile war has resulted in the killing and wounding of thousands of Yemenis, mostly children and women, and caused widespread famine and a humanitarian crisis that is among the worst in the world.
- In his briefing to the Security Council, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator noted that millions of Yemenis are looking to humanitarian organizations for help. “But aid work is about to get much harder in Yemen, mostly because agencies are, once again, starting to run out of money.”
- The Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator confirmed that the water, sanitation and hygiene programs have only received 12 per cent of the funds they need this year. Likewise, health programs have received just 15 per cent of the required funding.
