MSF: Yemen needs international support to confront Coronavirus

SANAA, March 26 (YPA) – The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said that Yemen is seeing a dramatic influx of critically ill COVID-19 patients requiring hospitalization in Aden and many other parts of the country.

“We are urging all medical humanitarian organizations already present in Yemen to rapidly scale up their COVID-19 emergency response,” said Raphael Veicht, MSF head of mission in Yemen.

He confirmed that all aspects of the COVID-19 intervention are lacking and need greater international support, from public health messaging, to vaccinations, to oxygen therapy—support is needed across the board.”

“International donors who cut their humanitarian funding to Yemen must also act quickly,” he added.

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