Details of the dose of death in Sana'a, which was imported by Daghsan with facilities from Al-Mashat and Hamed
English - Sunday 16 October 2022 الساعة 06:43 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, special:
An official medical source in the Ministry of Public Health and Population in the unrecognized Houthi militia government revealed the details of entering the chemotherapy treatments that killed 18 leukemia patients in Sanaa a few days ago.
The source, who asked not to be named, said in an exclusive statement to NewsYemen that a shipment of expired medicines entered Yemen last April, according to a statement from Houthi leader Mahdi al-Mashat, head of the so-called "Supreme Political Council", and Ahmed Hamid appointed to the position of Director of the Office of the Presidency.
He explained that businessman Daghsan Ahmed Daghsan, who is close to Al-Mashat, imported the finished shipment from India, and paid large sums of money as bribes in exchange for approval by the Supreme Authority for Medicines.
He added that the Houthi leaders, "Al-Mashat and Hamed", approved the passing of the corrupt medicine, stressing that the official documents on the procedures for entering this quantity into Yemen were signed by them.
The source indicated, in the context of his statement to "Newsyemen", that Al-Mashat had recently entered into investment activities with businessman "Daghsan".
Earlier, the Yemeni government and three human rights organizations called on the international community to open an urgent international investigation into the death and injury of 40 children with cancer after receiving an expired drug dose, in a hospital in Sanaa, which is under the control of the Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen.
In a joint statement, SAM organizations for rights and freedoms, the American Center for Justice and Jusoor Organization called on the international community, especially the World Health Organization, UNICEF and all relevant international bodies to open an international and urgent investigation into the repercussions of the death and injury of children with cancer in a hospital under the authority of the Houthi group after giving them expired medicines validity.
The Ministry of Public Health in the Houthi government, which is not internationally recognized, had acknowledged that 19 children had been injected with smuggled and expired medicines, 10 of whom died in the Kuwait University Hospital in Sana’a, although the number of deaths exceeded 18 cases so far out of 40 children who were injected with the dose.
