Ministry of Health calls on Int’l org to access besieged city of Duraihimi

SANAA, April 1 (YPA) -A spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Public Population, Yusuf al-Hadri, has confirmed on Monday that seven civilians who were wounded in the al-Rabsah neighborhood of Hodeidah city, including elderly women, are in critical condition.

He called on international organisations to help the civilians in the besieged city of Duraihimi.

On Sunday night, the coalition militants targeted citizens’ homes in al-Rabsa neighborhood in the Hawk district of Duraihimi using artillery shells, killing one female child and injuring 11 civilians, most of them women and children.

The spokesman noted that hospitals lack the most basic needs.

The child named Zinab, was killed in a bomb attack on the neighborhood on Monday morning, the Ministry spokesman told reporters.

He pointed out that the health sector in Hodeidah is on the verge of collapsed as the supply of medical supplies is interrupted.

Al-Hadri demanded health and humanitarian aid to reach besieged Duraihimi, stressing that this is the responsibility of the United Nations and the Red Cross.

Coalition militants escalated violence at a time when the provincial council demanded that a humanitarian convoy enter the besieged city of Duraihimi in order to rescue some 7,000 people trapped in the area for months without access to delivery of food or medicine.

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