The humanitarian disaster in war-torn Yemen could become the worst in the last 50 years unless something urgent is done to address the situation, the United Nations, UN, has said.
According to UN’s Humanitarian Chief Mark Lowcock, the Middle East nation’s situation become an Apocalypse if not tackled with the needed urgency.
“The situation in Yemen, today, right now, to the population of the country, looks like the apocalypse,” the UN’s undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, said on Friday.
“The cholera outbreak is probably the worst the world has ever seen with a million suspected cases up to the end of 2017,” Lowcock stated.
Lowcock added that “a terrible new epidemic” of diphtheria, a bacterial disease which should be completely preventable by immunization, has already “affected up to 500 people with dozens and dozens of deaths” in the past few weeks.
“That is going to spread like wildfire,” Lowcock underlined, adding: “Unless the situation changes, we’re going to have the world’s worst humanitarian disaster for 50 years.”
It would be recalled that Saudi Arabia has declared war on Yemen since March 2015 in a bid to restore power to fugitive President Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed at least 15,500 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children.
Despite Riyadh’s claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.
The World Health Organisation has also reported that almost 500 cases of diphtheria are suspected in Yemen.
The cholera outbreak in Yemen which began in April, has also claimed over 2,200 lives and has infected about one million people, as the nation has been suffering from what the World Health Organization (WHO) describes as the “largest epidemic in the world” amid a non-stop bombing campaign led by Saudi Arabia.
Also Riyadh’s deadly campaign prevented the patients from traveling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country.
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War-Torn Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis Like Apocalypse, Says UN Chief
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