A Source in the Ministry of Health Reveals the Extent of the Suffering of Patients due to the Closure of Sana’a International Airport

Today, Wednesday, the Ministry of Health revealed the extent of the suffering of Yemeni patients as a result of the continued closure of Sanaa International Airport by the forces of aggression in front of patients who need to travel for treatment abroad.

A source in the ministry told almasirah that the number of patients with kidney failure in the free governorates amounted to more than 4,850 patients, most of whom need to travel abroad for a kidney transplant.

He mentioned that there is a great shortage of dialysis centers, as there are 4 government dialysis centers in the capital, Sana’a, and five private centers, and in the governorate Sana’a there is only one center, and in the other free governorates there are only 18 centers.

For his part, the Director of Sana’a International Airport, Khaled Al-Shayef, said that the number of passengers through Sana’a International Airport before the aggression was 2 million passengers annually, arriving and departing, with an average of 5,000 passengers per day to and from more than twenty destinations.

He explained that before the aggression, more than 50 local, Arab and international airlines were working at Sanaa Airport, and most of the travelers were patients for treatment abroad.

He pointed out that the airport was running, before the aggression, 3 flights a day to Egypt and Jordan for treatment, carrying an average of 170 to 200 patients for treatment abroad.

He pointed out that Sana’a International Airport entered the second quarter of the sixth year since its closure, while the number of international organizations’ flights through the airport since the beginning of the aggression has reached more than 5,500 flights.

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