ANAA, March 23 (Saba) - Four years of US-saudi coalition aggression and siege imposed on Yemen, and this is the fifth year that the US-Saudi killing tools have been targeting the Yemeni people from all sides, despite the previous four years of brutal massacres against civilians, women and children, and all-out barbaric siege.
All those conditions, in addition to prevent the entry of medicine and food resulted in a major health disaster that warned of by the international organizations and the United Nations, especially with the emergence of diseases and epidemics which disappeared decades ago.
Cholera in wartime
History repeats itself, after the disappearance of many epidemics, including cholera, which coincided with the Second World War and was eliminated after the war, appeared again after more than seventy years this epidemic in Yemen and other as a result of the US-saudi coalition aggression during last four years due to using biological weapons carrying chemical atoms to help spread such epidemics, as well as coalition's targeting to sewage projects, water wells, hospitals, health centers and medical teams.
Cholera reaches Million
Recent official statistics by Ministry of Health reveal that one million and 450,000 Yemeni citizens have been infected with cholera since the beginning of the aggression against Yemen, which resulted in the death of nearly 3,000 children, women and men.
The Chairman of the Committee on Water and Environment in Parliament Hassan Swaid said that the war launched on Yemen by the coalition and targeting infrastructure projects, including sources and networks of drinking water, sanitation and health facilities, as well as the all-out blockade, all those factors contributed to the deterioration of the health situation and caused re-emergence of a cholera epidemic.
Since the beginning of the war 1450805 cases were recorded.
He pointed out that the number of working teams in the field of fight against the cholera epidemic reached 660 teams distributed on the capital and all isolated areas and villages in the targeted provinces.
He stressed that there are many difficulties facing the field teams in some areas, including delayed transport and communication, in addition to the deterioration of the level of basic services, "food and medicine", widespread pollution and the scarcity of clean water, which provides a fertile environment for the cholera epidemic that claimed the lives of thousands of citizens.
He pointed out that the cholera epidemic witnessed by Yemen is the worst in the world and that the annual number of cholera infected in Yemen is the highest in history.
He pointed out that the main reasons for the deterioration of the health situation in Yemen is targeting water projects and infrastructure by coalition, which in turn exacerbate the spread of diseases and epidemics, in addition to the scarcity of solutions and medical and therapeutic supplies due to the continued aggression and siege.
450 treatment centers
Since the beginning of the year 2019, more than 120 people have died of cholera and more than 80 .000 cases have been registered and suspected, according to the Ministry of Health, which also confirmed that there are more than 450 corner, centers and hospitals in the provinces to provide treatment services for cholera to address diarrhea associated.
In the capital Sanaa, dozens of cholera cases have died since the beginning of this year, according to Director of the health office of the capital Sanaa, Dr. Mutahar al-Marouni, who said the hospitals and centers to treat cholera in the capital Sanaa have received from the beginning of the year 2019 to 12 March, about 2.0000 suspected cases.
He pointed out that laboratory tests showed 3178 negative cases of the total cases registered in capital Sanaa's districts.
In the province of Dhamar, 12 cases of cholera have died since the beginning of this year, most of them in March.
The Director of the Office of Public Health and Population, Dr. Khaled Al-Hajji, confirmed that two cases of death were recorded during the month of January in the districts of Mif'at Ans and Al-Manar.
He added that the number of deaths rose during the period from 1 to 10 March to nine cases.
Dr. Al-Hajji pointed out that among the deaths are two cases of the provinces of Bayda and Ibb.
The total number of cases of acute water and cholera cases detected in the province during the period from 1 January to 10 March was 9560 cases, the number of cases of positive rapid examination (RDT) indicated 2597 cases, while the laboratory was conducted for 78 cases, of which 45 recorded positive.
According to the report of the operations room of the Ministry of Water and Environment issued in mid-March, the number of deaths on Thursday, 14 March 2019 as a result of cholera was eight deaths, including three cases in Ibb province, two cases in the province of Ryma, two others in the province of Marib, one case in Taiz.
The report pointed out that the total number of cases infected with the epidemic amounted to 2847 cases, including 1010 affirmed cases.
Cholera awareness
Minister of Information, Dhaifallah al-Shami, called on the media to support national efforts to combat the cholera epidemic through awareness campaigns on its dangers and how to prevent it.
The Minister of Information stressed the importance of the role of the media in raising awareness, health education and mobilizing efforts to curb the spread of the epidemic and strengthen the participation of society in combating it.
Al-Shami blamed the coalition of aggression for Yemen's spread of epidemics and diseases caused by the main aggression, siege and the damage to the infrastructure of the health sector, water and sanitation sector due to systematic destruction.
He called on international and humanitarian organizations to play their role in supporting efforts to combat cholera, which is killing thousands in a gloomy international silence.
He also called on the citizens to interact seriously with awareness campaigns through the media and mosques to ensure the reduction and prevention against cholera.
He pointed out that the media has made great efforts during the last period in support of hygiene campaigns, awareness and environmental sanitation.
In this regard, al-Shami reiterated that the national media will continue to be a partner and an active participant in the official and popular efforts and will spare no effort in the interests of the homeland and the citizen.
Aggression exacerbates suffering
As for the worsening humanitarian situation resulting from the aggression and siege, al-Shami said more than 22 million Yemenis need humanitarian assistance (food, water and shelter), 11.3 million people in need to food and health, and 7500,000 people are in desperate need of assistance, healthy nutrition, in addition to 2.9 million malnourished children and women and 400,000 severely malnourished people,16 million people in food insecurity, 16.4 million people in need of health, 17.8 million people in food insecurity and 16 million people in need of water, sanitation and hygiene.
He revealed that more than 35 percent of the population of Yemen are presumed in the index of the fifth phase (stage of famine).
The emergence of many diseases and epidemics
During the past four years, especially since the aggression against Yemen began on March 26, 2015, the health sector in Yemen faced great challenges under the direct targeting to hospitals, health centers via planes, missiles and weapons of coalition used in its unjust war against Yemen and brutal siege which prevented reaching of medicines, and various medical supplies, which caused the spread of many diseases and epidemics.
The official spokesman of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Youssef al-Hazziri, that the ministry recorded 203,297 children infected with malaria and Hodeidah province ranked first, followed by the provinces of Hajjah and Taiz.
According to a UN report released at the end of last year, a child every ten minutes dies due to malnutrition or other diseases.
Dr. al-Hazziri said that about 1203 children were infected with Maltese fever.
Dhamar came top on the list of the most affected provinces, while 981 children were infected with rabies and Dhamar and Ibb were at the top of the list.
He pointed out that 1133 children were infected with leishmaniasis, Dhamar come top on the list then Jawf.
2173 children were infected with schistosomiasis. Hajjah and Saada are top on the list of cases of this disease.
The Ministry of Health confirmed the spread of smallpox again than it was, 12 194 children infected with this disease were registered.
The capital and Sanaa is the most affected areas of this disease.
12,995 children were infected with mumps disease, "mastitis," come Taiz and Saada top on the list of cases numbers.
He pointed out that the Ministry of Health recorded 3813 cases of dengue fever, Hodeidah, Taiz and Abyan among the provinces where recorded the highest rate of infection.
1847 cases of meningitis were recorded.
Taiz and the capital city of the most provinces affected on the list of cases numbers.
A total of 657,802 cases of diarrhea and cholera-related diseases have been reported in the past year resulted in deaths of 145 children.
He referred to 102 neonatal tetanus cases, 509 cases of b & c, 6940 hepatitis A and e , 2147 cases of pertussis, and 15,911 cases of measles.
He said the ministry's report revealed 14,691 cases of typhoid, 45,650 flu, 958,846 upper respiratory tract diseases, 437,100 diseases related to the lower respiratory tract, and 511 children under five years of age with diphtheria, of whom 55 died.
According to Dr. al-Hazziri, the report of the Ministry of Health revealed that two 2.000400 children-aged-fifth year suffer from the disease or several infectious diseases, plus the same number cumulative statistics of malnutrition for the same category, which number in Yemen about six million girls, equivalent to 60 percent of this category under the risk of communicable diseases and malnutrition due to the aggression and siege.
The Ministry of Human Rights also reported in its report last year that 296,834 citizens were indirectly killed by the military operations, where 17,608 people suffer from their inability to travel abroad for treatment, and 1 200 people suffer from for kidney failure and 2236 from cholera, While 247,000 children died of malnutrition.
Three per cent of the infants born between 2015 and 2018 recorded congenital malformations in fetuses and neonates, with 450 abortions and 1 million cholera.
132 deaths of swine flu<
On the swine flu, the spokesman of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Youssef al-Hazziri said that the number of deaths of swine flu "H1N1" reached 132 cases during 2018 and 2019.
He added that Sanaa comes first in the number of deaths, followed by Amran and Ibb.
He stressed that the epidemic is still in the phase of spread and expansion despite the measures taken by the ministry to contain it.
He pointed out that the spread of swine flu recently in Yemen was the result of accumulations of four years of aggression and siege and the destruction of health facilities and infrastructure.
He pointed out that these accumulations weakened the system of epidemiological surveillance of diseases in general and influenza, in particular rather than the difficulty of combating the emergence of any epidemic due to the interruption of operating expenses.
"Swine flu, after its spread in Yemen, has become a pandemic that threatens human beings and we must work to protect ourselves and our children from diseases above all, and this comes at the level of our consciousness and our change of the wrong health practices," he said.
He stressed that awareness is important to prevent swine flu and avoid infection.
Main instructions
The community awareness has become an urgent necessity, especially as we face a brutal aggression and hatred that seeks to kill the Yemeni people in various ways, whether with using forbidden and biological weapons or with via their unjust siege to prevent the entry of medicine and food, in order to avoid any new symptoms or recording of cases attacked by cholera epidemic.
It is important to follow the correct methods of prevention provided in the medical guidelines for the prevention of cholera.
The spokesman of the Ministry of Health, Director General of Education and Health and Population, Dr. Youssef al-Hazziri, called on citizens to take care of personal and public cleanliness, wash hands before eating, after eating, not eating open foods, washing vegetables and fruits before eating them and avoiding cold foods in restaurants and markets.
He urged the infected not to delay going to the centers in case of suspected cholera to consult the nearest center and receive treatment because the delay of the situation leads to death.
He called on citizens to raise the level of precaution in preserving the environment to avoid a new wave of epidemics coincided with the entry of summer and rainy season.
He stressed that the responsibility to face cholera, especially with the onset of the rainy season, the continued aggression and siege and cases associated with the spread of deadly epidemics such as cholera.
He stressed the need for concerned authorities to play their role in addressing any environmental problems related to water, especially with regard to sanitation because the cholera epidemic is transmitted significantly Across the water.
Edited by Amal Al-Jindy for althawrah.ye and translated by Ahmed Al-Mutawakel
Saba
All those conditions, in addition to prevent the entry of medicine and food resulted in a major health disaster that warned of by the international organizations and the United Nations, especially with the emergence of diseases and epidemics which disappeared decades ago.
Cholera in wartime
History repeats itself, after the disappearance of many epidemics, including cholera, which coincided with the Second World War and was eliminated after the war, appeared again after more than seventy years this epidemic in Yemen and other as a result of the US-saudi coalition aggression during last four years due to using biological weapons carrying chemical atoms to help spread such epidemics, as well as coalition's targeting to sewage projects, water wells, hospitals, health centers and medical teams.
Cholera reaches Million
Recent official statistics by Ministry of Health reveal that one million and 450,000 Yemeni citizens have been infected with cholera since the beginning of the aggression against Yemen, which resulted in the death of nearly 3,000 children, women and men.
The Chairman of the Committee on Water and Environment in Parliament Hassan Swaid said that the war launched on Yemen by the coalition and targeting infrastructure projects, including sources and networks of drinking water, sanitation and health facilities, as well as the all-out blockade, all those factors contributed to the deterioration of the health situation and caused re-emergence of a cholera epidemic.
Since the beginning of the war 1450805 cases were recorded.
He pointed out that the number of working teams in the field of fight against the cholera epidemic reached 660 teams distributed on the capital and all isolated areas and villages in the targeted provinces.
He stressed that there are many difficulties facing the field teams in some areas, including delayed transport and communication, in addition to the deterioration of the level of basic services, "food and medicine", widespread pollution and the scarcity of clean water, which provides a fertile environment for the cholera epidemic that claimed the lives of thousands of citizens.
He pointed out that the cholera epidemic witnessed by Yemen is the worst in the world and that the annual number of cholera infected in Yemen is the highest in history.
He pointed out that the main reasons for the deterioration of the health situation in Yemen is targeting water projects and infrastructure by coalition, which in turn exacerbate the spread of diseases and epidemics, in addition to the scarcity of solutions and medical and therapeutic supplies due to the continued aggression and siege.
450 treatment centers
Since the beginning of the year 2019, more than 120 people have died of cholera and more than 80 .000 cases have been registered and suspected, according to the Ministry of Health, which also confirmed that there are more than 450 corner, centers and hospitals in the provinces to provide treatment services for cholera to address diarrhea associated.
In the capital Sanaa, dozens of cholera cases have died since the beginning of this year, according to Director of the health office of the capital Sanaa, Dr. Mutahar al-Marouni, who said the hospitals and centers to treat cholera in the capital Sanaa have received from the beginning of the year 2019 to 12 March, about 2.0000 suspected cases.
He pointed out that laboratory tests showed 3178 negative cases of the total cases registered in capital Sanaa's districts.
In the province of Dhamar, 12 cases of cholera have died since the beginning of this year, most of them in March.
The Director of the Office of Public Health and Population, Dr. Khaled Al-Hajji, confirmed that two cases of death were recorded during the month of January in the districts of Mif'at Ans and Al-Manar.
He added that the number of deaths rose during the period from 1 to 10 March to nine cases.
Dr. Al-Hajji pointed out that among the deaths are two cases of the provinces of Bayda and Ibb.
The total number of cases of acute water and cholera cases detected in the province during the period from 1 January to 10 March was 9560 cases, the number of cases of positive rapid examination (RDT) indicated 2597 cases, while the laboratory was conducted for 78 cases, of which 45 recorded positive.
According to the report of the operations room of the Ministry of Water and Environment issued in mid-March, the number of deaths on Thursday, 14 March 2019 as a result of cholera was eight deaths, including three cases in Ibb province, two cases in the province of Ryma, two others in the province of Marib, one case in Taiz.
The report pointed out that the total number of cases infected with the epidemic amounted to 2847 cases, including 1010 affirmed cases.
Cholera awareness
Minister of Information, Dhaifallah al-Shami, called on the media to support national efforts to combat the cholera epidemic through awareness campaigns on its dangers and how to prevent it.
The Minister of Information stressed the importance of the role of the media in raising awareness, health education and mobilizing efforts to curb the spread of the epidemic and strengthen the participation of society in combating it.
Al-Shami blamed the coalition of aggression for Yemen's spread of epidemics and diseases caused by the main aggression, siege and the damage to the infrastructure of the health sector, water and sanitation sector due to systematic destruction.
He called on international and humanitarian organizations to play their role in supporting efforts to combat cholera, which is killing thousands in a gloomy international silence.
He also called on the citizens to interact seriously with awareness campaigns through the media and mosques to ensure the reduction and prevention against cholera.
He pointed out that the media has made great efforts during the last period in support of hygiene campaigns, awareness and environmental sanitation.
In this regard, al-Shami reiterated that the national media will continue to be a partner and an active participant in the official and popular efforts and will spare no effort in the interests of the homeland and the citizen.
Aggression exacerbates suffering
As for the worsening humanitarian situation resulting from the aggression and siege, al-Shami said more than 22 million Yemenis need humanitarian assistance (food, water and shelter), 11.3 million people in need to food and health, and 7500,000 people are in desperate need of assistance, healthy nutrition, in addition to 2.9 million malnourished children and women and 400,000 severely malnourished people,16 million people in food insecurity, 16.4 million people in need of health, 17.8 million people in food insecurity and 16 million people in need of water, sanitation and hygiene.
He revealed that more than 35 percent of the population of Yemen are presumed in the index of the fifth phase (stage of famine).
The emergence of many diseases and epidemics
During the past four years, especially since the aggression against Yemen began on March 26, 2015, the health sector in Yemen faced great challenges under the direct targeting to hospitals, health centers via planes, missiles and weapons of coalition used in its unjust war against Yemen and brutal siege which prevented reaching of medicines, and various medical supplies, which caused the spread of many diseases and epidemics.
The official spokesman of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Youssef al-Hazziri, that the ministry recorded 203,297 children infected with malaria and Hodeidah province ranked first, followed by the provinces of Hajjah and Taiz.
According to a UN report released at the end of last year, a child every ten minutes dies due to malnutrition or other diseases.
Dr. al-Hazziri said that about 1203 children were infected with Maltese fever.
Dhamar came top on the list of the most affected provinces, while 981 children were infected with rabies and Dhamar and Ibb were at the top of the list.
He pointed out that 1133 children were infected with leishmaniasis, Dhamar come top on the list then Jawf.
2173 children were infected with schistosomiasis. Hajjah and Saada are top on the list of cases of this disease.
The Ministry of Health confirmed the spread of smallpox again than it was, 12 194 children infected with this disease were registered.
The capital and Sanaa is the most affected areas of this disease.
12,995 children were infected with mumps disease, "mastitis," come Taiz and Saada top on the list of cases numbers.
He pointed out that the Ministry of Health recorded 3813 cases of dengue fever, Hodeidah, Taiz and Abyan among the provinces where recorded the highest rate of infection.
1847 cases of meningitis were recorded.
Taiz and the capital city of the most provinces affected on the list of cases numbers.
A total of 657,802 cases of diarrhea and cholera-related diseases have been reported in the past year resulted in deaths of 145 children.
He referred to 102 neonatal tetanus cases, 509 cases of b & c, 6940 hepatitis A and e , 2147 cases of pertussis, and 15,911 cases of measles.
He said the ministry's report revealed 14,691 cases of typhoid, 45,650 flu, 958,846 upper respiratory tract diseases, 437,100 diseases related to the lower respiratory tract, and 511 children under five years of age with diphtheria, of whom 55 died.
According to Dr. al-Hazziri, the report of the Ministry of Health revealed that two 2.000400 children-aged-fifth year suffer from the disease or several infectious diseases, plus the same number cumulative statistics of malnutrition for the same category, which number in Yemen about six million girls, equivalent to 60 percent of this category under the risk of communicable diseases and malnutrition due to the aggression and siege.
The Ministry of Human Rights also reported in its report last year that 296,834 citizens were indirectly killed by the military operations, where 17,608 people suffer from their inability to travel abroad for treatment, and 1 200 people suffer from for kidney failure and 2236 from cholera, While 247,000 children died of malnutrition.
Three per cent of the infants born between 2015 and 2018 recorded congenital malformations in fetuses and neonates, with 450 abortions and 1 million cholera.
132 deaths of swine flu<
On the swine flu, the spokesman of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Youssef al-Hazziri said that the number of deaths of swine flu "H1N1" reached 132 cases during 2018 and 2019.
He added that Sanaa comes first in the number of deaths, followed by Amran and Ibb.
He stressed that the epidemic is still in the phase of spread and expansion despite the measures taken by the ministry to contain it.
He pointed out that the spread of swine flu recently in Yemen was the result of accumulations of four years of aggression and siege and the destruction of health facilities and infrastructure.
He pointed out that these accumulations weakened the system of epidemiological surveillance of diseases in general and influenza, in particular rather than the difficulty of combating the emergence of any epidemic due to the interruption of operating expenses.
"Swine flu, after its spread in Yemen, has become a pandemic that threatens human beings and we must work to protect ourselves and our children from diseases above all, and this comes at the level of our consciousness and our change of the wrong health practices," he said.
He stressed that awareness is important to prevent swine flu and avoid infection.
Main instructions
The community awareness has become an urgent necessity, especially as we face a brutal aggression and hatred that seeks to kill the Yemeni people in various ways, whether with using forbidden and biological weapons or with via their unjust siege to prevent the entry of medicine and food, in order to avoid any new symptoms or recording of cases attacked by cholera epidemic.
It is important to follow the correct methods of prevention provided in the medical guidelines for the prevention of cholera.
The spokesman of the Ministry of Health, Director General of Education and Health and Population, Dr. Youssef al-Hazziri, called on citizens to take care of personal and public cleanliness, wash hands before eating, after eating, not eating open foods, washing vegetables and fruits before eating them and avoiding cold foods in restaurants and markets.
He urged the infected not to delay going to the centers in case of suspected cholera to consult the nearest center and receive treatment because the delay of the situation leads to death.
He called on citizens to raise the level of precaution in preserving the environment to avoid a new wave of epidemics coincided with the entry of summer and rainy season.
He stressed that the responsibility to face cholera, especially with the onset of the rainy season, the continued aggression and siege and cases associated with the spread of deadly epidemics such as cholera.
He stressed the need for concerned authorities to play their role in addressing any environmental problems related to water, especially with regard to sanitation because the cholera epidemic is transmitted significantly Across the water.
Edited by Amal Al-Jindy for althawrah.ye and translated by Ahmed Al-Mutawakel
Saba
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