Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Yemen Emergency Appeal - Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Support MSF's medical teams as we provide care and treat patients in Yemen.
Story
Ordinary people are bearing the brunt of an increasingly brutal conflict in Yemen.
After five years of war, the people in Yemen are struggling to access basic commodities such as food, water and medicines. Two-thirds of people can't afford to buy food and half the country is close to starvation.
Yemen's health system has collapsed, clinics and hospitals have been destroyed and those that are functioning urgently need medical supplies.
More than 80 percent of the population, 24 million people, need humanitarian assistance.
Recent outbreaks of diseases such as cholera and diphtheria, as well as the arrival of COVID-19, have exacerbated the already dire humanitarian situation in Yemen.
What is MSF doing in Yemen?
Our activities in Yemen are among our most extensive worldwide, but the needs remain huge while the healthcare system is even weaker than it was in 2015, when conflict erupted.
We work in 12 hospitals and health centres across the country and provide support to more than 20 hospitals across 11 governorates. Our interventions range from primary healthcare to epidemic responses and life-saving emergency surgery.
Since the start of the conflict in 2015, MSF has:
- Treated 1,019,679 patients in our emergency rooms
- Treated 116,687 people suspected of having cholera
- Performed 81,102 surgical interventions
Read more about how MSF is supporting Yemeni people through this time of urgent need.
COVID-19 in Yemen
COVID-19 is now circulating widely across the whole of Yemen.
We are extremely concerned about how COVID-19 will affect people living amid the conflict in Yemen. Yemen's hospitals are struggling to meet the existing needs of people and the spread of COVID-19 is placing enormous strain on an already broken system.
MSF is running the only COVID-19 treatment centre for the whole of southern Yemen. Our teams are working around the clock to provide the best level of care that they can.
We are doing the best we can to help Aden through these dark days, but we cannot respond alone. - Dr Ghazali Mohammed Babiker - MSF doctor and Yemen Country Representative
We are re-using PPE because we dont have enough... We dont have enough ventilators, we need more oxygen concentrators and a reliable supply chain. Its an enormous challenge. - Dr Khairil Musa, MSF doctor in Aden
How your support makes an impact
£6 could pay for seven oxygen masks
£10 could provide eight dressings for wounds
£17 could provide two leg splints to treat fractures
£31 could pay for 40 oxygen masks
£97 could pay for a physiotherapist for one day
£226 could provide a surgery set for an MSF hospital in Yemen
Thank you
We urgently need you to ensure Yemeni people are not left to face this crisis alone. Please set up your fundraising page, or donate now. Thank you so much for your support.