400 tons of life-saving health supplies arrive in Yemen
2 July 2017 – Twenty ambulances, 100 cholera kits, hospital equipment and 128 000 bags of intravenous fluids – these are just some of the supplies which arrived in Hodeida, Yemen, Friday as part of a 403 ton shipment sent by the World Health Organization (WHO). An additional 10 ambulances were delivered through the Port of Aden three weeks ago with 10 more due to arrive in coming weeks.
“We needed a special kind of ship to carry the ambulances and luckily we found one in the region,” explained Dr Nevio Zagaria, WHO Representative in Yemen. “It was absolutely enormous. But so are the needs in Yemen right now. So we loaded as many supplies as possible onto it, including some therapeutic feeding items that our sister agency UNICEF will use for children suffering from malnutrition.”
