News - Yemen: The director of Al-Zahra'a Center for free charitable dialysis in the city of Al-Baidah, Dr. Ali Al-Sayed, said that, “The lack of fuel for the center’s generators, as a result of the continuation of the siege, threatens the lives of 85 patients with renal failure, including 25 females."

Al-Sayed emphasized that the only Al-Zahra'a Dialysis Center in Al-Baidah, which was established in May 2005 by businessman Saleh Ba’esh, provides dialysis sessions for the people of the governorate, and for patients from the districts in the neighboring governorates, in addition to displaced patients, including children.

He explained that the World Health Organization reduced the center's monthly share of fuel, which amounted to 8,000 liters. The new expansion of the center will have an actual need of more than 12,000 liters per month, considering the delay in fuel will lead to Stop dialysis devices and negatively affect the lives of patients.

He indicated that the center works with seven devices continuously, day and night, including two devices for viruses, amid an increase in the number of cases and sessions provided to patients during the first half of this year by 30% of the total number of 12,000 sessions during the past year 2020.

The director of the center indicated that the Minister of Health, Dr. Taha Al-Mutawakil, sent a memorandum to some organizations interested during the year 2020, to provide devices for dialysis, in addition to a memorandum for the Yemeni Red Crescent to adopt the center, and we are still waiting for this to be achieved in the coming days.

The director of the center stated that many patients come from faraway areas to get the sessions, which reach three sessions per week, at a rate of 12 hours, and the adoption of Friday work hours in order to continue providing the service to patients, therefore, the center must be expanded and the second floor built

Ali Al-Sayed explained that the center's expense is based on the management of Al-Zahra'a Private Hospital affiliated with the businessman Ba'esh, without any expense or financial budget from government agencies, praising the role of the Ministry of Health in providing health supplies to the center.

Al-Sayed pointed out that 12 employees of the center received a monthly incentive from the World Health Organization for one year only, so that the hospital would bear the greatest burden for continuing to provide services to patients with kidney failure in the governorate.