Alwaght-The World Health Organization says a rapidly spreading cholera outbreak in Yemen has claimed 1500 lives since April as the Saudi regime continues its daily bombardments on the impoverished Arab state.
Speaking at a press conference in Sanaa on Saturday, Dr. Nevio Zagaria, the head of WHO office in Yemen, said the epidemic has hit 21 provinces out of Yemen's 22 provinces where the number of suspected cases has reached 246,000.
Meanwhile, UNICEF's acting representative Sherin Varkey, for his part, said a quarter of the fatalities from the outbreak were children.
Last month, UNICEF warned that the number of Yemenis infected with cholera would rise to more than 300,000 by the end of August.
UN agencies have repeatedly warned that the three-year long Saudi-led aggression on Yemen had destroyed the country's health sector, making it difficult to deal with the epidemic.
This comes amid an ongoing Saudi-led brutal bombing campaign against Yemen which has destroyed the country's health sector, making it difficult to mitigate with the epidemic.
The Saudi regime, like in the previous years, s failed to respect the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and Eid ul Fitr holidays by continuing to bombard Yemeni civilians on a daily basis.
Saudi Arabia backed by the US and some despotic regional regimes launched the deadly campaign against Yemen in March 2015 to push back the popular Ansarullah movement from Sana’a and to bring back to power Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Yemen's president who has resigned and is a staunch ally of Riyadh.
The brutal aggression has so far claimed the lives of over 13,000 Yemenis mostly civilians including women and children.
The Saudi military aggression has also taken a heavy toll on Yemen’s facilities and infrastructure, destroying many hospitals, markets schools, mosques and factories.
