In Yemen's Aden, coronavirus death rates are worse than its wartime fatalities

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Local medical authorities say that death rates in Aden are soaring this year, despite a relative lull in a war that ravaged the place in previous years.

In the first half of May, the city recorded 950 deaths — nearly four times as many as the 251 deaths in the whole month of March, according to a Ministry of Health report.

"Yemen has faced wars and cannot handle three pandemics, economic collapse and a war and the coronavirus," Dr. Ishraq Al-Subei, the health official responsible for the response to the disease told CNN. The family had the funds for medical treatment, but Aden's hospitals were either closed or full. A hunt for admission to a hospital that could perform surgery and dialysis in time to save him failed."Who is to blame for all of this? We do not have a government or a state or anyone to help us in this country," Motref said at the family home in the rocky hills around Aden.

"We are a billion short of our minimum target," Lise Grande, the head of the UN's humanitarian operations in Yemen, told CNN."So In the time of Covid what this means is that we're going to see approximately half of the hospitals which we are currently supporting in the country closed down — and that's going to be happening in just the next few weeks.

"Most cases are rejected because there are no available ventilators," Dr. Farouk Abduallah Nagy, head of the isolation department at the Gomhuria Hospital, told CNN.

 

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