Yemen has officially lower in the Middle East COVID-19 count. In fact, the spread of the virus invisible and unverified

As international aid organization Doctors Without Borders on the management of a hospital treatment center COVID-19 in the Yemeni city of Aden on May 7, he took one of the immediate challenges convinced cleaners, porters, and even some of the doctors at the hospital that there are new coronavirus, and could make them sick. “Do not rely After years of war, after years without real services to people in general, what is said in the media, and do not trust the authorities,” the deputy coordinator of the Mohammed Center project Abdul TIME said by telephone from Aden May 24 “at the beginning we had ill medical staff. They had direct contact with patients without precautions such as putting the mask on it treated as a normal illness.” employees misconceptions about COVID-19 was just one of the obstacles and Abdul his team above. First of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is the al-Amal management system has been adopted any special clinic for patients Crown and a political dispute meant salaries Yemeni government had stopped payment, leading to a wave of resignations. Three weeks after his term, saying the lack of oxygen and DPI remains, and dozens of MSF staff are sick of Aden. The front-line physicians al-Amal are struggling just some of the people who have destroyed a health care system more than five years of war on the ground for support. After Saudi Arabia, Iran witnessed by the Yemeni capital Sanaa Houthi, United Arab Emirates and other Arab nations intervened in 2015 to drive, has the Yemeni civil war has killed more than 100,000 people, displaced millions of people and led in what the United nations calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis made people. Now, the crown is spreading here and silently across the country. Even if the tests are almost nonexistent, the medical center COVID-19-treatment only dedicated in southern Yemen say they are struggling to cope with a mortality rate of 40% and a load of the patient’s growing work. “The team is not under constant stress with the staff or not enough trained,” Marc Jackal, MSF deputy director for Yemen told time by phone from Dubai. “There are very difficult clinical decisions for doctors to do to take. We are obliged to set out the eligibility criteria based on age and survival at the end of” How awesome are the conditions in the treatment center, MSF doctors believe to see “just the tip of the iceberg,” says Shakal: “we are very concerned about a lot of older people who are not able to reach the center, and who die in the community.” “we have not seen the epidemiological curve” number of crown cases Yemen’s official, the lowest in the Middle East is almost certainly misleading. from 28. May, he captured the World Health Organization, only 253 confirmed cases and 50 deaths out of a population of 28 million. in neighboring Oman, the more than 8,000 cases are confirmed with a population one sixth the size authorities. the country has a small number of cases only because of the almost total absence of testing. So far, the authorities carried out under 1,000 COVID-19 test, or 31 for 1 Millio n inhabitants. It is a lower number per capita than in the northeast of Syria, Chad and Idlib. Observations of medical treatment center al-Amal COVID further doubt on the official figures. Between April 30 and May 24 at the center it gave 228 patients suffering from Corona-like symptoms. Of these patients, 99 have died, or more than 40%. With the center of MSF permanently full, now expanded to a total capacity of 80 beds from 50, when he took over structures, May 7 as this is absolutely necessary in a country to come up with a barely functioning health systems. Half of the country’s hospitals and clinics have been destroyed or closed during the war, and earlier this month, the Associated Press reported that 18% of 333 districts Yemen not a single doctor. it is the splintered country, which is controlled by various armed groups, a UNOCHA report -after not anywhere close to a situation of epidemic equipped Deal on May 18, at the time, Yemen has less than 150 fans, about 500 beds for intensive care, and only five perform Labs capable COVID-19 test. In Aden “some hospitals have closed because they are concerned about contamination, or because of lack of essential supplies that could protect the health of workers,” says MSF jackal. Others have reportedly turned patients who have respiratory problems sought help. Although still the center of MSF sufficient number of missing employees and PPE, oxygen is the most urgent need. Every day, the agency says his COVID-19 center is 250 bottles of 40 liter oxygen. Yemen has a total stock of less than 12,000 cylinders for the entire country. Al-Amal of the alarming death rate is partly due to patients at a very late stage in the progression COVID 19-come, say MSF doctors. But what is particularly striking is that most of the dead are those between 40 and 60 years old, much younger than the majority who have succumbed to the disease in European hospitals. While it is possible that environmental stressors COVID-19 make the population more vulnerable Yemeni doctors suspect the high mortality rate without treatment, many more people in Aden, especially the elderly-die at home means. There is an assumption that in the city of withstanding severe rates. On May 14, Save the Children reported that 380 people died in the city of “crown-like symptoms” in a single week. On the same day, the official budget for the whole of Yemen only 13. By the end of May showed funeral government statistics show that at least 80 people were dying every day in Aden, compared to a normal before the 10.em “blast we had no view of the epidemiological curve, so I do not really know when it stops, “jackal tells tIME. “We do not know if we are on the way to the top, or on the way down.” Illness during the war all this is happening on a continuous war background. Yemeni conflict pits Houthi rebels who Sanaa and northern control of the country against a coalition led Saudi Arabia, holds the rule in the south and wiederzuherzustellen in the fight against the government in exile internationally recognized. Saudi air strikes delivered munitions in the UK and US civilian infrastructure such as hospitals responsible for most of the destruction. A recovery from the fighting could come on April 8, when Saudi Arabia announced a ceasefire two weeks in Yemen, which for another April 24. But prolonged humanitarian groups say the truce has been denounced as a stratagem media than the initial increase rather inaugurated Houthi as reducing violence. The coalition led Saudi Arabia accused the Houthi its “ceasefire” unilateral 241 times is not exceeded within 48 hours. In the two weeks after it was announced, “We have definitely seen a spike in violence by both sides, since a rise in the number was the victim, the number of shifts and the number of air strikes”, says International Rescue Committee Yemen director Tamuna Sabadze. From May 18 the Houthi authorities had only four cases of COVID-19 and one death each reported in Sanaa. But the Aden-based government has accused the south of Yemen, rebels to cover a larger outbreak upwards. “It ‘hard to say how many he has,” the International Committee of the Red Cross Director (ICRC) Yemen Franz Rauchenstein told TIME Sanaa. “We believe there is a fairly widespread transmission to the north.” But it is not only the affected infected. COVID-19 has an increase in basic food prices and a decline in remittances from migrant workers, one of the main sources of income contributed by the country began the pandemic. This is in a country where even before the pandemic only 15% of children were eating the minimum acceptable diet for survival, growth and development of life threatening; and their companies face the additional threat posed by the massive swarms of locusts. The doctors also fear that the ability to COVID-19 to inhibit Yemen could meet other health crises. Recent flooding across the country has contributed to outbreaks of malaria mosquitoes, dengue and chikungunya. In the first six months of 2019, Save the Children has recorded nearly half a million suspected cases of cholera. While Yemen no great cholera epidemic has experienced this year, there remains a risk in a country where over 80% of the population has no access to clean water. More than a separate problem, the global pandemic adds an extra layer of Yemen already complex crisis. “It is the Crown actually reduces the efficiency of aid workers The difficult and reduces the efficiency of the economy,” said ICRC smoke stone. “Even more to reduce these side effects of Corona weaken Yemen and its resilience.” On 24 May, Mohammed Abdul and his wife, a pharmacist in the near MSF trauma unit is running, enjoyed a rare day of absence from work for the Muslim festival of Eid, Instead of visiting relatives, according to tradition, they spent the day together at home. But outside Aden streets were crowded as usual. Despite the authorities to observe the people, promote social distancing measures, yet visited markets men narcotic khat leaf chewed by many Yemenis buy children went from house to house collecting candy, and families in the park came together. Yemeni opposition social distancing for the public’s skepticism, not only down is over we said Abdul authorities information Delete. Even if people believe official reports, most leave Aden population in their daily work to feed their families. “O people stay at home, where power outages and die because they are hungry, or die in the crown”, he tells TIME. “Both ways have their dead. So, stop thinking and just go about their lives.”
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