Yemen is fast-becoming one of the world’s “forgotten conflicts”, International Committee of the Red Cross Regional Director for the Near and Middle East, Robert Mardini has warned.
In a post published on Twitter, ICRC’s outgoing health coordinator in Yemen, Monica Arpagaus said: “Hospitals are not the safe places that they used to be.”
“We have incidents where hospitals have been targeted and patients have been injured and staff have been killed. Drugs, medication and medical supplies have been prevented from crossing frontlines into hospitals which desperately need these supplies,” she added.
Since the war began on 26 March 2015, 6,000 civilians have been killed and a further 28,000have been injured.
According to the UNHCR the war and disasters that hit the country’s eastern provinces have caused 2.5 million Yemenis to flee their homes since April.
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