Discretion and ignoring the Houthis.. A frightening escalation of child deaths in Dhamar
English - Tuesday 08 November 2022 الساعة 03:11 pm
Dhamar, NewsYemen, Special:
Dhamar Governorate, central Yemen, has recorded, during the past two weeks, a remarkable increase in the number of deaths of children and infants due to infection with a new disease that doctors have not been able to accurately diagnose until now.
Medical sources in Dhamar told NewsYemen that in the past days, the health authorities recorded 20 mysterious deaths among children as a result of a new and strange disease, explaining that the disease targets children and infants largely, as the affected child suffers from difficulty breathing and oxygen entering the body before it is carried out. His death was announced within hours.
The sources indicated that Dhamar hospitals received similar cases of children suffering from difficulty breathing, as the injured fell into a coma for hours before his sudden death inside the intensive care rooms.
Medical sources confirmed that the number of deaths may be large, and has exceeded 50 cases among children in the governorate, but most of the deaths were not recorded or reported, especially in the countryside, indicating that what was recorded only in the Anas district alone, about 12 deaths, while There are deaths in the city and the rest of Dhamar districts.
She explained that the symptoms of the disease are the closest to diphtheria, or as it is called “diphtheria”, which is caused by a bacteria known as “corynebacterium diphtheria”, and the germs that cause it usually spread in wet droplets that come out with coughing, where they multiply in the mucous membrane of the mouth and throat.
Local sources spoke of the widespread and frightening spread of this disease in Dhamar Governorate, especially in the Hada and Anas districts and other rural areas, noting that deaths among Dhamar children are on the rise without a medical or treatment diagnosis.
Increasing concern expressed by many citizens who fear for the lives of their children in light of the severe secrecy and opacity by the health authorities in Dhamar Governorate, which is under the control of the Houthi militia, Iran's arm in Yemen, and which refuses to give any information about the disease.
According to the sources, the systematic destruction of the health sector, and the extremist ideas of the Houthi militia to prevent vaccinations, caused a high number of deaths among children and infants, not to mention the looting of health aid and budgets, which exacerbated the situation and the complete collapse of the system.
