Detention of aggression by oil derivatives undermines efforts to confront Corona

As if the aggression caused by the collapse of the health sector system in Yemen and the spread of the Corona virus was not enough, to continue his crimes by seizing the ships of oil derivatives to undermine efforts to confront the epidemic.

The suffering of the Yemeni people is compounded by the detention of ships loaded with fuel despite obtaining permits from the United Nations, which casts a shadow over the various sectors related to the daily lives and livelihoods of citizens, including the health sector.

At a time when concerted efforts are being made to confront the Corona virus that has swept the countries of the world, and the losses it has caused to lives and property, the aggression alliance is tightening its blockade and preventing the entry of oil ships in light of the growing need for fuel in the health sector in Yemen, as well as medicines and medical supplies to confront the epidemic, which warns A humanitarian catastrophe.

The Minister of Health warns

The Minister of Public Health and Population, Dr. Taha al-Mutawakkil, warned against the continuation of the aggression alliance in preventing the entry of oil derivatives ships because of the catastrophic effects on the health sector, holding the United Nations and the Secretary-General fully responsible for the continued prevention of the entry of oil derivatives.

The Minister of Health said, “The Secretary-General of the United Nations talks about the worst humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen, while the aggression coalition continues to detain oil derivatives, thus exposing the health sector to a new crisis.”

A real disaster

“We are facing a real catastrophe if the public and private medical facilities are stopped due to the intransigence of the aggression countries and preventing them from entering the oil derivatives,” he added.

He pointed out that the private sector provides health services to more than 60 percent of the population, especially in light of the circumstances that Yemen is going through as a result of the continued aggression and blockade.

Catastrophic repercussions

For his part, the head of the General Revolution Hospital in Hodeidah, Dr. Khaled Suhail, pointed out that preventing the entry of oil derivatives into the country has catastrophic consequences for the health sector.

“The health sector will be directly affected if the electricity is cut off, and dozens of patients will die in hospitals and health facilities,” he said, noting that more than 70 patients with intensive care in the hospital use the ventilator and incubators, and if electricity is cut off, they will suffer certain death.

Complete paralysis

Dr. Suhail pointed out that hospitals and health facilities will not receive any patient and will not operate trauma devices, monitoring vital signs, x-ray and x-ray, dialysis, magnetic resonance and laboratories in the event of electricity interruption, and the health sector will be completely paralyzed.

He stressed that the blackout caused by preventing the entry of oil derivatives will lead to an increase in patient deaths … adding, “We have the hospital’s oxygen station, producing seventy to eighty cylinders a day and power outages will put patients to death.”

The President of Al-Thawra Hospital in Al-Hudaydah appealed to the international community, the United Nations and international organizations to play their role in supporting Yemen’s efforts in facing Corona, and to press the coalition countries to stop the aggression and lift the siege.

He continued, “The international community must play its humanitarian role and stand by the Yemenis, who have been under attack and blockade for more than five years, to prevent the entry of petroleum products and the medicines needed by operating and emergency rooms in hospitals.”

He stressed that the interruption of oil derivatives from hospital generators will cause a humanitarian catastrophe.

Sentenced to death

In turn, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Dr. Yusef Al-Hadri, stated that 903 private medical facilities are at risk of a health disaster if the aggression alliance continues to prevent oil derivative vessels from entering the port of Hodeidah.

 

He pointed out that the number of health facilities belonging to the private sector, affected by the lack of oil derivatives, 183 hospitals, 165 clinics and 555 medical centers .. He considered the prevention of aggression entering the oil ships as a death sentence for hundreds of thousands of patients, children, women and men.

And Dr. Al-Hadri indicated that the health sector relies directly on oil derivatives, and its absence means that health facilities will stop providing medical and treatment services to patients.

Criminal act

For his part, the director of Kuwait University Hospital in Sana’a, Dr. Amin al-Junaid, considered the aggression prevention of entering oil derivatives a criminal act that will turn hospitals into cemeteries due to the suspension of their services, and that it will have negative effects on the health sector and increase the suffering of patients, especially children in incubators and patients in intensive care ..

He emphasized that the detention of oil ships is a grave violation of international humanitarian law, which criminalizes such practices that amount to war crimes against humanity.

Threatened to stop

The director of Jiblah University Hospital in Ibb governorate, Dr. Abdullah Al-Matari stressed that preventing the entry of oil derivatives will have repercussions on the performance of the health sector and will lead to a major health disaster.

He explained that many of the devices and equipment in the dialysis centers, the heart, the operating rooms, the baby incubators and the isolation centers to face the Covid 19 threatening to stop, in case the electricity was cut off due to the lack of oil derivatives.

Dr. Al-Matari called on the World Health Organization to intervene to prevent a new humanitarian and health catastrophe and more outbreaks of epidemics and corona virus in Yemen.

Willful killing

The Deputy Chairman of Al-Thawra Hospital for Technical Affairs in Ibb, Dr. Muhammad Amer, considered preventing deliberate entry of oil derivatives as premeditated murder, stressing that the aggression countries would cause a humanitarian catastrophe for thousands of patients, especially heart patients and kidney failure.

He called on the United Nations to sense its responsibilities and work to stop piracy and terrorism practiced by the countries of the aggression alliance by preventing the entry of oil derivatives.