{"id":20310,"date":"2020-11-09T11:50:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T11:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=20310"},"modified":"2020-11-09T11:50:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T11:50:14","slug":"coronavirus-pandemic-intensifies-humanitarian-disaster-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/coronavirus-pandemic-intensifies-humanitarian-disaster-in-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Pandemic Intensifies Humanitarian Disaster in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"

In war-torn Yemen\u2014devastated by five years of a US- and EU-backed war led by Saudi Arabia\u2014the coronavirus pandemic is exhibiting its murderous potential. Doctors there report a death rate of 20 to 30 percent among those infected.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Intensive care physician Tankred Stobe from the aid organization \u2018Doctors Without Borders\u2019 told the German newspaper Tagesspiegel of the dramatic consequences of the pandemic. The pandemic, he noted, has swept through the bitterly poor and war-ravaged country \u201clike a deadly desert storm.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Stobe estimates a 30 percent mortality rate among COVID-19 patients, the highest in the world. A significant lack of testing renders the official figures\u2014just over 2,000 confirmed cases and 600 deaths\u2014meaningless. \u201cThe vast majority of patients have suffocated in their homes without being counted, diagnosed or treated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Many Yemenis live far from a clinic and are left to fend for themselves if infected with the coronavirus. The virus spreads virtually unchecked. \u201cThere is hardly a family that has not been affected by the pandemic,\u201d Stobe reports.<\/span><\/p>\n

Doctors Without Borders erected a specialized COVID-19 clinic whose 40 beds were immediately filled. \u201cThe mortality was very high because patients came too late,\u201d Stobe explained. \u201cThe average length of stay was five days\u2014but not because people recovered, but because they died.\u201d The clinic contends with a chronic shortage of personnel and materials. Moreover, the staff must transport oxygen bottles across residential districts devastated by war.<\/span><\/p>\n

The high mortality rate is primarily due to the preexisting, unimaginable humanitarian catastrophe in the country from a years-long war and an imperialist-backed bombing campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia has waged an unrelenting air war in Yemen since March 2015 aimed at toppling the Ansarullah revolutionaries\u2019 government and re-imposing the puppet regime of imperialist president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. The United States, France, Great Britain and Germany have all supported this murderous war, directly or indirectly. As such, the German government has exported over \u20ac1 billion in weaponry to countries participating in the war.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stobe described the situation now unfolding in Yemen as an \u201cunbelievable tragedy.\u201d Bombing and live fire continue on a daily basis: \u201cTens of thousands have already died. Millions have been displaced.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Under international pressure, early this year Saudi Arabia announced a temporary abstention of aerial raids against Yemen \u201cfor humanitarian reasons.\u201d In fact, the bombing continued. Between March and June, the Yemen Data Project recorded 1,078 air attacks, at least 142 on civilian targets like residential areas, schools and hospitals.<\/span><\/p>\n

The war perpetrated by Saudi Arabia with support of Western powers against the Yemeni population has impacted primarily civilians. The monarchy in Riyadh, led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has blockaded food and medical aid to the country with the conscious intention of causing mass suffering and starvation. Roughly 20 million Yemenis depend on food aid for survival.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ten million human beings are threatened by starvation, as reported this summer by the German broadcaster Tagesschau. It has been two years since the aid organization Save the Children reported that 85,000 Yemeni children had starved to death.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other diseases\u2014cholera, malaria, dengue fever\u2014are taking an additional toll. Just this year over 110,000 people contracted cholera. A cholera clinic set up and operated at great personal sacrifice by Doctors Without Borders volunteers was bombed by Saudi fighter planes in the battle for the port city of Hodeidah.<\/span><\/p>\n

Doctors Without Borders\u2019 account of the pandemic is corroborated by Essen, Germany cardiologist Dr. Marwan Al-Ghafory, an advocate for suffering Yemenis. Via the free app \u201cTabiby\u201d [my doctor] he has reached tens of thousands of people in Yemen.<\/span><\/p>\n

The cardiologist concludes that the real situation in Yemen is far worse than officially reported. According to Johns Hopkins University, there are currently 2,070 known coronavirus infections and 602 deaths. \u201cBut the information our team has gathered, the statistics that we have collected ourselves, tell us quite something else,\u201d the doctor said in an interview. \u201cWe peg it at more than 100,000 cases with a mortality rate of over 20 percent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For Dr. Al-Ghafory, the most important task is warning the population about a second, more severe wave of coronavirus. Yemenis have very little access to reliable information. He said: \u201cI write articles every day and translate medical studies. My team and I post between seven and ten articles a day. We\u2019ve taken the task upon ourselves to educate our forgotten people about COVID-19.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The coronavirus pandemic is only accelerating the enormous catastrophe long wrought by imperialism. As a result of the war, the country is lacking not only necessary health care, but clean water for drinking and washing, sanitary systems, sufficient nutrition, shelter, as well as prospects for the future\u2014in short, every elementary necessity for a healthy life.<\/span><\/p>\n

The imperialist powers, especially the US, but also Germany, support the belligerence of Saudi Arabia because they consider Riyadh an important ally in their conflicts with Iran, Russia and China.<\/span><\/p>\n

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