News - Yemen: The National Cancer Control Foundation in Ibb governorate made a distress call to support its affiliated Al-Amal Center for Oncology, to provide chemical pharmaceuticals that are running out.

He pointed out that the indebtedness of the center amounted to about 22 million riyals, at a time when it lacked the medicines needed to treat patients at a rate of 50%, while the rest of the medicines were about to run out.

Al-Taweel pointed out that the cessation of the UN assistance and the failure of some parties to pay what they promised about a year ago made the center stop, had it not been for its recent reliance on loans.

The director of the Foundation called on the international and humanitarian organizations to provide aid to the center to save patients' lives.

The US-Saudi siege and intense bombardment with prohibited weapons caused a high rate of congenital abnormalities and miscarriages, with an average of 350,000 miscarriages and 12,000 malformations.

The Ministry of Health indicated that as a result of the siege, premature births increased to 8% compared to the situation before the aggression, at a rate of 22,599 cases annually. The blockade has also caused an increase in the number of cancer patients by 50%, and the number of cases reached 46,204 cases registered during the year 2021.

The ministry indicated that the aggression prevented the entry of vital medical equipment, while international companies have refrained from supplying medicines to Yemen as a result of the blockade, pointing out that aid shipments expired as a result of their stay in Djibouti as a forced station for the passage of aid to Yemen.

The Ministry of Health stressed that lifting the siege and stopping the aggression completely is the first and correct step to address the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.