United Nations: Yemen’s health system ‘collapsed’ amid coronavirus outbreak
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Jens Laerke, a spokesman for the United Nations (UN) office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, announced in a statement in Geneva that: “Relief organisations in Yemen are operating on the basis that there is an outbreak throughout the country.”
“We hear from these organisations that Yemen is on the edge now. The situation is deeply disturbing and they are talking about how the health system has in effect collapsed,” he added.
Laerke pointed out that relief workers claim they have been forced to refuse to help people because they did not have enough medical oxygen or enough supplies of personal protective equipment.
