Doctors Without Borders Treats 39 Injured in South Yemen
25/2/2012
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Doctors Without Borders Treats 39 Injured in South Yemen
Source: Doctors Without Borders
On February 21, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins
Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Aden and Al Daleh, in southern Yemen, tended to
39 people who had been injured during outbreaks of violence connected to
national elections. A local separatist movement boycotted the vote, which led
to clashes in the south, particularly in Aden, the region’s main city.
MSF supported three hospitals in Aden by deploying medical and
surgical teams and financially supporting health care for the wounded. The
three hospitals admitted a total of 37 people on Tuesday.
Additionally, an MSF team working in the emergency room of Al-Daleh
hospital, some 120 kilometers [72 miles] further north treated two gunshot
victims.
The situation in the region remains tense, so the teams will
continue to support these hospitals in the coming days, in case there is
another influx of wounded people.
For over a year now, MSF has been working around the main areas of
violence in southern Yemen—particularly in the governorates of Aden, Abyan,
Al-Daleh and Lahj—supporting emergency rooms, transferring wounded patients,
and helping to provide primary health care for the resident population and
people displaced by the conflict in Abyan.
In 2011, MSF conducted more than 15,000 emergency room consultations
and performed 1,500 surgical procedures in these programs.
MSF is an international humanitarian organization that provides
private and emergency medical assistance in more than 60 countries worldwide.
For its activities in Yemen, MSF does not accept funding from any
government and chose to rely solely on private donations.
