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UN’s air bridge led to growing disappointment among Yemeni patients
February 17, 2020 0 views
His mother had kidney failure and needed a kidney transplant abroad. On Wednesday, she died, just one week after the second UN flight to Jordan. For two years, she had been waiting for a UN flight.
Many Yemeni described it as little more than a public relations move aimed at improving Saudi Arabia’s image in the world.
If it proceeds at its current rate, transferring 28 patients a month, it would take 15 years to evacuate all 32,000 patients currently in urgent need of medical treatment abroad.
According to a health official in Sana’a, at least 250 patients have died since February 3, when the first air bridge flight took place.
Moreover, the number of patients who need to evacuate abroad has rapidly increased, meaning the gesture is little more than that, and cannot hope to address the deteriorating health situation in the country, according to Yemen’s medical officials.
More: WATCH THE SAUDI WAR CRIME IN AL-JAWF AFTER TORNADO JET CRASHING INTERNATIONAL LAW SPECIALIST: COMPELLING GROUNDS TO PROSECUTE UAE, SAUDI’S ACTIONS IN YEMEN AT LEAST 30 CIVILIANS KILLED IN FRESH SAUDI AIRSTRIKES ON YEMEN’S AL-JAWF Frustrated patients, activists and doctors describe the air bridge, accompanied by all of its media hype, as a big lie that has no purpose other than to exacerbate the suffering of patients who travel from far-flung districts and die waiting for a chance to board one of the UN flights.
Since 2015, when the war began, more than 220,000 medical patients had been prevented from traveling abroad for treatment due to Saudi Arabia’s closure of the Sana’a airport.
Now, at least 300,000 are suffering from conditions that cannot be treated inside the war-battered Arab country, and need to evacuate abroad to save-life try.
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