One year into the COVID-19 pandemic in Yemen, stigma, disinformation, and fear of detention and isolation continue to deter people from seeking timely treatment for the disease. In parallel, those who want to be treated face a collapsed health system that wasn’t able to meet health needs in the country even before the pandemic.

MSF is supporting the COVID-19 treatment centre at the Al Jumhouri Hospital in Sana'a, Yemen, which opened and started to receive patients in April 2021, to treat patients in 25 beds in the inpatient department and 15 beds in the intensive care unit in collaboration with Al Jumhouri hospital authority.

Patients come to us from the different governorates of Yemen, such as Hajjah, Al Mahwit and Hodeidah – between 3 and 6 hours by car to Sanaa.