Medical aid boat docks in Aden, MSF says
Doctors Without Borders says a boat carrying medical aid has docked in Yemen’s port city of Aden amid ongoing Saudi-led military aggression against the impoverished Arab country.
Marie-Elisabeth Ingres, the group’s head of mission in Yemen, said on Wednesday that the boat traveled from Djibouti and carried 2.5 tons of medical aid.
“The shipment will be delivered to our hospital in Aden,” she stated, adding that Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), hoped aid destined for the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, and the northern portion of the country would arrive by air by Friday.
The MSF, which has a team of 140 local staff and eight foreigners at a hospital in Aden, issued a warning on Tuesday, saying the situation in Yemen is “worsening by the day.”
According to Ingres, medics in the port city have “not received large numbers of casualties over the past few days due to the difficulties faced in trying to reach a hospital.”
Also on Tuesday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) described the humanitarian situation across Yemen as “very difficult... (with) naval, air and ground routes cut off.”
ICRC spokeswoman, Marie Claire Feghali, meanwhile, said the state of affairs in Aden is “catastrophic to say the least,” adding that many people are not able to escape the city which sees war “on every street, in every corner.”
Saudi Arabia’s military aggression against Yemen started on March 26, without a UN mandate, in a bid to restore power to the fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. The airstrikes have killed hundreds of people and injured thousands more.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that over 540 people have died and 1,700 wounded in the past tumultuous days the country has witnessed, saying that the death toll is related to the time period between March 19 and April 6.
The UN says at least 74 children have been killed since the beginning of the Saudi-led strikes. The real figure is thought to be much higher. The turmoil has forced over 100,000 people from their homes.
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