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Volunteering for the fight against malaria in Yemen
17 January 2022 – WHO has joined forces with King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre to support malaria prevention and control efforts across the country.
As part of the malaria project, WHO, in partnership with KSrelief, has implemented vector control and indoor residual spraying campaigns in 13 governorates, reaching 5 424 381 people. Three main vector control interventions included space fogging, entomological surveillance, and community awareness to enhance detection and management of mosquitoes breeding sources.
Dr Ahmed Al-Soofi: serving with excellence on the front lines of Yemen’s health crisis
30 December 2021 - It was late in the evening on 7 December 2021 when Dr Ahmed Al-Soofi received an email unlike any other in his 16 years of working with WHO in Yemen.
"It was the biggest surprise of my life!" said Dr Ahmed. "At first I didn’t understand it. Then I made two phone calls to my mother and my wife. I told them it would not have been possible without their love and support. I can’t explain how I felt. I was so happy."
Health workers in Yemen fight for the lives of COVID-19 patients
28 December 2021 - "Imagine becoming like family for a complete stranger, like everything they have in life and like their lifeline. During my work for the COVID-19 response, we work tirelessly to save the lives of these patients and offer them care and support in their fight against the disease," says Fadhl Ismail, a health worker in the Al Amal isolation centre in Aden since the first COVID-19 wave in March 2020.
After 19 years of waiting, Al-Sadaqah Hospital in Yemen has a new x-ray machine thanks to WHO and World Bank
General Director of Al-Sadaqah Hospital Dr Kefaya Al-Gazaie, Manager of the Radiology Department Dhikra Abdulraheem and WHO Technical Officer Dr Amgad Abdulqawi discuss the impact that the new digital x-ray machine will have on the population of Aden and surrounding governoratesAden, 5 December 2021 – With the crisis in Yemen profoundly impacting the country's health system, WHO is strengthening service delivery at hospitals across the country through the World Bank-supported Emergency Health and Nutrition Project (EHNP). One such facility is Al-Sadaqah Hospital in Aden where, after 19 years of relying on an increasingly outdated and underperforming x-ray machine, the hospital staff finally received a new one.
Hospitals in Yemen are struggling to meet the increasing demands for essential care, coupled with deteriorating infrastructure, equipment and services. "Since 2002, we had been working with another x-ray machine that insufficiently diagnosed cases, forcing many patients to go to an expensive private clinic,” said Dhikra Abdulraheem, Manager of the Hospital’s Radiology Department.
The state-of-the art, digital x-ray machine is already enabling the hospital’s pediatric department to better treat a growing influx of patients. “Now, instead of paying five times more at a private clinic, they can receive the same accurate diagnosis at a much more affordable cost,” added Abdulraheem.
Improved image diagnostic capacity will enable doctors to effectively detect severe acute lower respiratory tract infections, which will reduce the risk of infection-related mortality in children under five.
Abdulraheem elaborated that the machine will also diagnose adult cases, which is key to meeting the needs of an ever-growing number of patients -- including internally displaced people -- hailing from many different governorates. “We have suffered a long time, especially during the last four years of this seven-year conflict,” added Abdulraheem, “Now, thanks to the arrival of this new x-ray machine, we can finally treat more patients.”
