Yemen’s heroes—the key to sustainable health outcomes
Multidimensional poverty, economic deterioration, illiteracy, and security, all remnants of a prolonged conflict, have coalesced into a forgotten crisis that has gripped millions of Yemenis, who continue to suffer from the highest rates of chronic malnutrition and poor health in the world.
“I’ve been a doctor at the therapeutic feeding centre since day one. I work with severe acute malnutrition cases referred from the hospital’s emergency department and from other hospitals in Aden and nearby governorates,” says Dr. Mohsen Saleh, a pediatric doctor at Al Sadaqah Hospital. The hospital admits an average of 60 SAM cases each month for immediate and urgent treatment.