Overview
- WHO warned in late September that renewed fighting and a fast Houthi coastal advance have uprooted at least 145,000 people in a month and more than 180,000 overall, sharply straining health services and shelter sites.
- The health agency reported this year nearly 8,000 suspected cholera cases with 22 deaths, more than 9,600 dengue cases with 37 deaths, and over 22,000 suspected measles cases with 128 deaths.
- Nine health facilities in Taiz, Lahj and Hudaydah have been damaged or put out of service, and comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care was suspended in hospitals in Marib and Ras Al-Arah because staff were redirected to trauma care.
- WHO has sent more than 20 mobile medical teams and about 60 tonnes of supplies to 40 facilities but says lifesaving stocks in its Aden warehouse are at or near zero for trauma kits and essential medicines and it has secured only $2 million of the $9 million requested.
- Overcrowded displacement sites with limited water and sanitation, reduced vaccination coverage and depleted hospital capacity raise the risk of much larger outbreaks and higher maternal and child deaths if access, supplies and funding do not increase quickly.