The sad story of children that being victim of war in Yemen

News24xx.com -  Save the Children said in a statement on Sunday, January 21, 2018 that minors in Yemen would suffer the worst epidemic of diphtheria for a generation.

Diphtheria is a contagious infection that targets the respiratory system of the body. Although it can be prevented with vaccines, but this disease can cause respiratory problems, heart failure and death. And deaths that caused by diphtheria, a serious bacterial infection are likely to increase in Yemen if a blockade imposed by a Saudi-led military coalition is not lifted

Since August 2017, the aid organization has said that they recorded at least 52 deaths because the disease, most of them are children under 15 yo. A total of 716 others were infected during the same time period.

"There is little help to detect this disease, when families bring their children hundreds of miles to get to us, but they are late to arriving and infecting people on the street," said Mariam Aldogani, a field coordinator of the group in the port city of Hudaida.

According to Save the Children, the epidemic has struck the western province of Ibb and Hudaida. Despite the severe food and fuel shortages, the Yemeni population is facing an ongoing cholera epidemic, and described that disease as the world's worst, and an acute outbreak of diarrhea.

The United Nations has said that the spread of the disease is man-made, and referring to the war between the Houthi rebels and the Arab-led coalition that fought them.

Yemen has been torn apart by conflict since 2014, when the Houthi rebels, allied with soldiers that loyal to the late President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to captured remote areas of the country, including the capital, Sanaa.

Saudi Arabia launched a massive air campaign against the rebels in March 2015, that aimed at restoring the reign of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

The Saudi-led coalition blocked air, land and sea access to the Arabian peninsula for all humanitarian and organizational workers on November 6, 2017, saying the blockade would stop arms trafficking for Houthi rebels.

The United Nations says that more than 10,000 people were killed in the conflict, and left more than three million people must displaced.

 

 

 

 

 

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