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Date taken / Date Recorded 17/07/2025 4:20 PM

Country Yemen

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MSF Deputy Head of Mission
Sadiq ONUNDI

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Dhamar governorate

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Amid a surge in measles cases, MSF began treating children in Dhamar since April 2025.

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So far, MSF has treated more than 1,400 measles patients in Dhamar at Al-Wahda hospital and via six mobile clinics.

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56% of the patient we treated were children under five years old.

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Mas’ool who is 10 months old, is the second child in his family to suffer from measles.

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Mas’ool’s brother Ali was admitted to the hospital just before him, suffering sever complications.

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The measles situation in Dhamar became concerning,

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in the first two months of 2025, when we noticed,

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that the numbers of measles cases,

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were 219% above the numbers of last year.

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MSF is currently supporting the Ministry of Health,

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to run a 40-bed isolation centre,

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in Al-Wahda Teaching Hospital.

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We are also supporting mobile clinics,

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in six hotspot districts around Dhamar,

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where we are receiving most of the cases.

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In the beginning he had diarrhea and vomiting

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So we started giving him medications for his fever and vomiting.

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Then he started showing measles signs and he completely stopped eating.

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He was unable to eat anything at all.

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His brother [Ali] was so sick that I thought he will die.

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He stopped having any responses, even when we would call his name.

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He was unable to eat anything at home.

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I was hoping he would be cured but we could not access proper care for him.

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I brought him here and the doctors took care of him,

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He stayed here for three days.

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After spending five days sick at home.

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Another thing that contributes to the challenge,

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is low vaccination rates amongst the population.

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We see, quite a number of patients coming in,

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who are unvaccinated.

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Yemen has been,

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in a situation of instability
for over a decade now,

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and this obviously has had effect on,

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the socio-economic situation of the population here in Yemen.

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But in Dhamar governorate particularly.

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We are having a surge,

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not only in Dhamar governorate, but all across Yemen.

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And I call on more partners
to support the Ministry of Health,

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to help control this surge in measles cases
we are currently experiencing in Yemen.

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