Yemen Health Ministry Condemns Militias Looting Medical Aid
The Source: ALYAMAN ALARABY Online \ Saleh Ahmed - Thursday 27 / Apr. / 2017
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Yemen’s health ministry condemned the unwarranted confiscation of medical equipment belonging to the dialysis center affiliated with al-Thawra hospital in the Taiz governorate.
ran-aligned Houthis militias had stormed the center, looting
its supplies and equipment. Such a criminal act threatens the lives of
hundreds of local patients with kidney failure.
The
ministry said in a statement broadcast on Tuesday that this act of
aggression came at a time the humanitarian tragic scene is further
deteriorating due to the war and siege imposed by the militias.
“The pro-coup militias have confiscated about 1,800 bottles of dialysis
solution, 10,200 packages of sodium bicarbonate and 200 filters used to
disinfect dialysis machines,” the Yemen News Agency, SABA, reported.
SABA’s statement stressed that the continuation of such irresponsible
acts will lead to a health disaster and disruption at the renal dialysis
center in the hospital, and could result in the deaths of hundreds of
patients with chronic kidney failure while accusing the militia of
confiscating the supplies.
The statement called on
international organizations and human rights groups to exert more
pressure on the pro-coup militias to return these supplies.
The
leader of Houthi militias, Abdulmalik Al-Houthi, has reaffirmed his lust
for power at whatever expense it comes, pledging his allegiance to
Tehran, reported the Saudi Press Agency SPA.
In a
Sunday televised speech broadcast, Al-Houthi pointed to the need to push
more men to battlefronts and intensify recruitment campaigns across
several governorates to increase recruitment.
Moreover, Al-Houthi also relied in waging his absurd wars on the loyalty
of many Yemenis to the deposed Ali Abdullah Saleh, exploiting the
poverty and destitution of Yemeni governorates in finding fresh cannon
fodder among children and youths, said SPA.
According to Yemeni media sources, the observers estimated the death
toll in the province of Hajjah alone about 3000, and other thousands of
wounded and disabled, mostly children and young people in Haradh, Medi,
Taiz and Mokha.
Yemen’s war has pitted
pro-government forces against Iran-aligned Houthi insurgents and their
allies, renegade troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. A
Saudi-led Arab coalition intervened in Yemen in March 2015 to help the
government retake the capital Sanaa.
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