Minister of Health: The aggression caused a rise in diabetes cases number to about one million

The Minister of Public Health and Population, Dr. Taha Al-Mutawakel, said that the aggression, the unjust siege on Yemen, caused, within 7 years, a rise in the number of people with diabetes to about one million.

During the annual conference of the Yemeni Diabetes Association in Sana’a, Al-Mutawakil explained that the intense bombing of cities and the nutritional imbalance as a result of the siege and economic war caused an alarming rise in the number of diabetic patients.

He added that the continued closure of Sana’a airport is a death sentence for hundreds of thousands of patients who need treatment abroad and medicines at home, indicating that the health sector is on the threshold of stopping with the intensification of the fuel crisis and the continuation of the coalition of aggression by piracy of fuel ships.

The Minister of Health indicated that the aggression coalition’s piracy of fuel ships threatens the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients due to the inability to reach the hospitals themselves, which are threatened with closure.

He also pointed out that the US-Saudi aggression has turned fuel into a military bargaining chip, and we call on the United Nations to impose respect for international law and neutralize the health sector.