Islah’s militias close Al-Thawrah Hospital in Taiz

TAIZ, July 22 (YPA) – Militiamen of Islah Party (Muslim Brotherhood) on Monday closed the Public Al-Thawrah Hospital in Taiz province, and expelled the hospital’s acting director and undersecretary of the province Dr. Ilan Abdulhaq from her workplace.

Sources reported that gunmen closed the hospital’s general management, offices of human resources and financial and the outpatient clinics.

“The local authority in the province is unable to defend itself and the law that protect employees in the place of their jobs,” the sources added.

They confirmed that what the gunmen did is part of series of systematic attacks they had carried out under the political cover of Islah Party and military support from the so-called “the 117th brigade” against Al-Thawrah Hospital.

According to the sources, the gunmen took control of the hospital several months ago and expelled its chairman Ahmed Anam, his deputy Ahmed Qahtan, and several staff.

Other sources told Yemen Press Agency that the Islah’s militias stormed Al-Thawra hospital by force of arms, broke a door of one of the patients’ rooms and kidnapped the patient Nader Amin Mohammed, 25, shortly after he left the operating room in front of his wife and mother.

This kidnapping incident is the second in a row in less than three months, after the Islah militias kidnapped a man from a MSF-run hospital and executed him in the street and threw his body in al-Sailah valley (rainwater road) in Taiz.

YPA