YEMEN Press Agency

Gunmen beat Hadi’s deputy for health affairs in Taiz

TAIZ, Jan. 21 (YPA) – A medical source in Taiz city revealed that Eilan Abdul Haq, Hadi’s acting deputy of Taiz province  for health affairs, and acting head of the General Revolutionary Hospital, which is under the control of al-Islah militias, were beaten by al-Islah militias.

The source confirmed that gunmen belonging to “Abdulsalam Al-Sharihi and Sameh Al-Yousfi”, leaders of the Islah Party, attacked the acting head of the General Revolutionary Hospital Authority Dr. Eilan Abdul Haq, during the opening of the women’s and emergency obstetric center in the hospital.

The sources said that the gunmen beat her and fired profanity and offensive words in front of the employees, according to coalition media sites.

Dr. Eilan Abdel Haq was attacked and expelled from her office by members of al-Islah party in mid-September after she refused to appoint cadre affiliated  with Islah party holding  a nursing diploma as vice-chairman of the Revolutionary Hospital Authority.

E.M