The Houthi pillage of medicines paralyzes government hospitals in Sanaa
English - Tuesday 18 February 2020 الساعة 03:44 pm
Sanaa, Newsyemen
These practices led to the depletion of medical materials from the warehouses, as the need for simpler medical materials that comply with the specifications appeared, to be replaced in the market by smuggled drugs, especially manufactured in Iran.
There is great suffering for doctors in operating rooms, according to Akram Yahya - a doctor at a government hospital in the capital, Sana'a. Houthi officials have been looting medicines from hospital stores on the pretext of providing them
for the "wounded", which made us face a shortage even in the sutures of surgery, especially those of the vessels that have a major role in saving the limbs from amputation in vascular injuries.
He added: "One of the patients was lucky during his operation and the necessary materials were available in any government hospital. He might spend weeks searching for specific inflammatory medications, especially in cases of large open wounds with sore and contaminated tissues."
While the owner of a pharmacy in Sanaa says that most quality pharmaceutical items are either expensive or non-existent, and it has become difficult to obtain medicines for chronic patients with pressure, diabetes, asthma and blood diseases at reasonable or even reasonable prices of good quality.
Adding: The proportion of alternative treatments - that is, the second or third alternative to the original variety - has reached 70% of the varieties, and this is no longer hidden from anyone.
