Minister of Health meets UN envoy
SANAA, June 18 (YPA) – Minister of Public Health and Population, Taha Al-Mutawakil, and the head of the National Authority for the Management, Coordination and Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations, Qassem Abbas, on Sunday met with the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffith.
In the meeting, Al-Mutawakel reviewed the violations that have affected the health sector since the beginning of the coalition war in March 2015 until 13 June 2018, adding the health situation in Yemen was classified as the worst humanitarian disaster in the world.
Al- Mutawakil said that the coalition targeted 423 health facilities, most recently direct targeting the operations room of the Health Bureau on Thawra General Hospital in Hodeidah, pointing to the death and injury of more than 35 thousand as a result of the coalition targeting of civilians, including more than two thousand and 500 children and more Of three thousand women.
Al-Mutawakil demanded the opening of all Yemeni ports and the lifting of the land, sea and air blockade, stop targeting health facilities, and stop the aggression.
The Minister of Health delivered a detailed report on the violations that affected the health sector from the beginning of the aggression until June 13, 2018.
In his turn, the head of the National Authority for the Management and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reviewed the dire humanitarian situation in Yemen as well as the aspects related to the relief work, the education situation and the severe damage caused by the aggression.
He also referred to the tragic situation of displaced people and refugees and the direct targeting of the aggression coalition, which resulted in an unprecedented calamity in the history of international conflicts, including the targeting of Al-Mazraq camp as well as the camp of displaced people in Hodeidah.
The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to Yemen expressed his dissatisfaction with the humanitarian situation in Yemen.
Griffith stressed on the need to pay salaries and open the Sanaa International Airport, and touched on the efforts of the United Nations in this regard.
He pointed out the importance of a comprehensive political solution to restore security and stability to the Yemeni people, stressing that the military option and attack Hodeidah will lead to difficulties in the political process and negotiations as well as it will impede access to a just peace.
The UN envoy pointed out that he will submit a report on the humanitarian situation in Yemen to the Paris Conference, which will be held on the 24th of June.
Sameera Hassn