Spread of combat, cholera wreaks misery in Yemen
 

https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/up...0014_print.gif DUBAI/CAIRO: Spilling into the hallways of crowded Yemeni hospitals, children writhe in pain from cholera.

Displaced villagers roam baking hot plains and barren mountains to evade warring militias.

The escalating outbreak of disease and displacement of tens of thousands by recent fighting has inflamed one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, pushing Yemen’s war-pummelled society ever nearer to collapse. Cholera - a diarrhoeal disease spread by food or water tainted with human faeces - has killed 180 people in less than three weeks, according to the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Samira Ali, a worried mother, expressed shock at the scene at Sabaeen Hospital in Sanaa, the ancient capital in the **rth held by the armed Houthi movement since late 2015.

"My young son suddenly started suffering from severe diarrhoea. We went to the hospital and found it full, we couldn’t find a place," said Ali, a teacher.

The UN **w estimates that in Yemen a child under the age of five dies every 10 minutes from preventable causes, two million people have fled fighting near their homes and only half of hospitals have staff and supplies to function **rmally.

Already one of the poorest countries in the Middle East, Yemen was engulfed in 2015 by civil war pitting the Houthis against the internationally recognised government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

A coalition led by Saudi Arabia and backed by the United States intervened on Hadi’s side and has carried out thousands of air strikes targeting the Houthis, though UN officials said last year these had killed more than 2,000 civilians as well.

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