Alwaght - The situation in the Aden, seaport city in Yemen is deteriorating with emergency response teams unable to move around the city to provide healthcare to the injured, and many patients unable to access hospitals.
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported that "Hospitals in Aden are full, some are placing mattresses in front of their front gates to accommodate patients.
"Daily fighting and airstrikes are still heavy and we are concerned for patients who are unable to access care, while patients who are already in hospitals are too scared to leave," MSF added .
Saying that "Our teams have been blocked on many occasions from moving within the city and from receiving shipments of medical aid from the port,” Goffeau, a member of MSF emphasized that "We need to be granted free access to be able to provide medical care to those who need it.”
Civilians in Aden are not only suffering due to the fighting, but also as a result of being cut off and surrounded by frontlines.
Hassan Boucenine, MSF Head of Mission in Yemen, criticized Saudi-led aggression on Yemen saying that "There are shortages of food, cooking gas, fuel and drug... The health system is collapsing, patients with chronic diseases cannot get their drugs, bodies are on the streets, and the city is an open dump with trash covering the streets.”
"It is extremely important to lift the blockade on food and medication and to set up unobstructed channels for air, sea and land access, to provide the population with what they need to survive,” added Boucenine.
Since March 26, Saudi-led coalition has been pounding Yemen under the pretext of reinstalling the fugitive Yemeni president Abd Rabbu Mansur Hadi.
Over the course of the last two and a half months, thousand of Yemeni civilians, mostly women and children, have been massacred and the infrastructure has been dealt a serious blow. Electrical grids, water supplies, sewage, food shipments and medical supplies have been affected.
Already the poorest country in the region, Yemen is now quickly becoming a major humanitarian crisis. According to the UN, 20 million people, or 80% of the population of the country, are now in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
