Food and medicine gets to war-torn regions of Yemen by camels and donkeys

NTD Staff
By NTD Staff
April 27, 2017World News
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In war-torn Yemen, where 10,000 people have died in fighting between Houthi rebels allied with Iran and Saudi forces that support Yemen’s government, it is hard to get food and supplies into the country. Hungry people don’t have the necessary medical attention.

A top Saudi aid official described how supplies are still getting in, despite the chaos.

Abdullah Al-rabeeah, Advisor at the Saudi Arabia Royal Court and Supervisor-general of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre spoke about the unique ways Saudi Arabia is carrying equipment to Yemeni hospitals, “At that difficult situation of Taiz we actually used the airplanes of the coalition to air drop medication and food supplies, and without that, the four main hospitals in Taiz would not have continued to work. And we had also another difficulty for the oxygen supply for the ICUs, intensive care units, and we have used, I’m sure you will laugh at it, but that is what we used, we used animals to carry oxygen cylinders, we used the donkeys and camels to carry oxygen cylinders through the mountains with a very capable local NGO to make the hospitals work.”

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