Discuss arrangements for launching the medical air bridge to transport patients abroad

The Director General of Sanaa International Airport, Khaled Al-Shayef, discussed today with the Acting Resident Representative of the World Health Organization in Yemen, Ihab Khoury, the arrangements for the medical air bridge that the organization will launch to transport patients for treatment abroad.

In the meeting, Al-Shayef explained that the medical bridge, due to be launched from Sanaa airport to Egypt and Jordan on Monday, according to the program that was established by the United Nations and the World Health Organization, requires 30 patients to travel through four flights of the United Nations.

He pointed out that each trip will carry seven to eight patients with their companions as a first stage, provided that there will be a trip after two weeks to transport fifty patients with their companions.

The director of Sanaa airport confirmed that the airlift was long overdue for the transportation of severe illnesses that had been waiting for more than two years, noting that some of the patients had died.