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UAE to repair 20 hospitals in Yemen

October 13, 2016 at 4:58 pm

The UAE has pledged to repair 20 hospitals at a cost of 44.1 million dirhams ($12 million) in nine governorates in Yemen to provide health care to 2.3 million Yemenis, the Chairman of the Red Crescent, Sheikh Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, said yesterday.

Al Nahyan also announced that around 700,000 women and children across 11 governorates in Yemen would be vaccinated by the UAE’s Red Crescent in partnership with the World Health Organisation, after a deal was signed between the two yesterday.

He stressed that the UAE is at the forefront of countries sending relief to Yemen and that the humanitarian campaigns are a key part of the country’s foreign policy.

Yemeni have been suffering as the country is locked in a bitter battle between Shia Houthi fighters allied with forces loyal to ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh and government forces led by President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, along with local tribes and resistance forces backed by the Saudi-led coalition’s airstrikes.