The aggression targeted more than 300 hospitals, health facilities ,the international medical bridge a major lie: Minister of Health
US-Saudi aggression targeted the health sector in Yemen in a systematic manner during the five years of aggression, the Minister of Public Health and Population, Dr. Taha Al-Mutawakkil said.
Al-Mutawakkil made his remarks during his presidency with the governor of Hajjah Hilal Al-Soufi the extended meeting of health cadres in the governorate on Sunday, affirming that the aggression targeted more than 300 hospitals and health facilities.
“Hundreds of ambulances were not safe from the aggression’s targeting in compounded crimes, where the paramedic and the victim were killed,” he said, indicating that the Saudi-led aggression also targeted the health sector by emptying the country of qualified medical personnel and attracting them abroad.
During the past weeks with the spread of the coronavirus, the coalition of aggression was aimed at striking public confidence in doctors and the Ministry of Health by spreading rumors and false news, he noted.
“The aggression’s targeting of the medical sector is a deliberate targeting by using the media machine,” he said. “Citizens should be concerned with awareness and trust in the doctor.”
The health situation is very poor and painful in the occupied areas and the citizens there, including those returning from abroad, lack real health care, al-Mutawakkil pointed out.
Regarding the medical bridge, which the United Nations promised to run to treat patients, the Minister of Health affirmed that the international medical bridge is a major lie, as only 50 patients were transported and then it stopped. “We have thousands of difficult medical cases in urgent need of treatment abroad.”
Hajjah governorate has suffered from deprivation during the past decades, as it has only 8 rural hospitals serving 31 districts, the Minister of Health indicated.
The Governor of Hajjah Hilal Al-Sufi affirmed , for his part, during the meeting that 28 health isolation centers in the governorate have been allocated to face the corona epidemic, stressing that despite the aggression and the siege there is a healthy renaissance in the governorate that it has missed for decades.
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