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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB79976

Date taken / Date Recorded 28/05/2021 3:42 PM

Country Belgium, Yemen

Commissioning section MSF-BELGIUM

Photographer / videographer / producer Julien Dewarichet

Usage Rights (MSF) Advertising Campaign, External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

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Editor's rating ★★★ (F)

Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 1m13s

Maximum Size 1080px × 1080px 178.74 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist Line Lootens – MSF Medical coordinator, Aden - YEMEN

The situation in Yemen after six years of war is very bad, healthcare system is completely crippled, you have malnutrition going up, you have a lot of epidemics like cholera. And on top of it now, you’re in a second wave of COVID so you see a lot of people suffering.

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We opened our center on 15 of March 2021, we quickly saw an increase of cases and our beds were directly full. We needed to expand our beds, we doubled and tripled them.

Directly we had lack of oxygen. Several times the truck with oxygen cylinders arrived just on time and if it would be ten minutes later we would have had multiple deaths in the hospital.

Another challenge is that a lot of our patients arrive in a very late state, already very scared, and very severe. And often, a few hours later we couldn’t save them anymore. So they died.

In one month we had 100 deaths in only our COVID-19 center.

I worked there as a coordinator but I had an amazing team under me and I think we managed to change a lot of things on a daily basis for the people there who were to live in the war everyday.

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COVID-19

Covid-19 treatment center

Media Interview

Oxygen cylinder