Médecins Sans Frontières - Yemen – Back to Haydan (ENG)

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF192883

Date taken / Date Recorded 09/04/2017 12:00 AM

Country Yemen

Commissioning section MSF-FRANCE

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Duration 1m31s

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In August 2016, airstrikes in north Yemen forced MSF to pull out of several hospitals, including the one in Haydan that was bombed in October 2015.
Thanks to Ministry of Health staff, the hospital managed to stay open but with reduced services. Early 2017, an MSF team went back to Haydan.

Haydan is in north Yemen, an area directly affected by the war that began over two years ago.
Not far beyond the rubble left by the attack on the hospital 18 months ago is the town’s school. It too was bombed.

DR ROBERTO SCAINI, Medical Activity Manager, MSF
This is a malnourished child, one year old, with diaorrhea, so gastro-enteritis since one week.

A health system in a state of total collapse… the soaring cost of essential supplies … The people of Yemen are paying a very high price.

DR ROBERTO SCAINI, Medical Activity Manager, MSF (in English)
All the civilians that nowadays don’t know where to go because the hospitals are closed for many reasons : there is no more money to pay the staff, it’s difficult to find drugs inside the country, and the health structures have been affected directly by the war, destroyed by the air strikes.

Since MSF’s return, the hospital has an emergency room and maternity and paediatric units again.
As a result of of the conflict, over half of Yemen’s medical facilities are no longer open. It’s estimated that close to 15 million of the country’s inhabitants are without access to the most basic medical care.