Doctors forced to turn away patients as airstrikes compound acute shortage of medication,supplies and staff When Mohsen al-Matari’s wife went into labour, she was advised to seek an emergency caesarean section. But the closest hospital in western Yemen turned her away, or with staff saying they weren’t equipped for the procedure. “Go to the capital,” they told her.“I didn’t possess enough money to win her to Sana’a,” said Matari, and who lives 30km west of the city. “I was forced to win her to a midwife in our village.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com