Houthi restrictions on confronting Corona . and government demands for international intervention

The Supreme Emergency Committee in Yemen called on the World Health Organization and the United Nations to inform the international community and the global public on the restrictions imposed on measures to counter the Corona epidemic in areas controlled by the Houthi coup militia, while continuing its refusal to get vaccinated against the epidemic.

And the committee confirmed, in a statement released from its Sunday meeting, led by Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik, that “Security Council Resolution 2365 of 2021 clearly stressed that all countries and parties must conduct and facilitate vaccination campaigns against the Crown and assigned international envoys and competent organizations to inform the Council of any practices that hinder it “.

A woman infected with the crown in a hospital in Sanaa (archive)
A woman infected with the crown in a hospital in Sanaa (archive)

The committee held the Houthi militia responsible for its continued intransigence and refusal to vaccinate against the Corona outbreak in its areas of control, including health and medical personnel, which puts their lives at risk.

And he felt that “these behaviors and practices are not new to the Houthi militia, which seeks to return Yemen to the age of disease, ignorance and superstition and fights science, and does not care about the loss of doctors and personnel. health care, and the lives of all the Yemeni people “.

The Yemeni Emergency Committee also held the Houthi militia fully responsible for the re-emergence of polio in the areas under its control, in particularly in Saada and Hajjah, due to its vaccination prevention teams, after Yemen got rid of this disease in 2006.

It called on the United Nations and its relevant organizations to disclose these practices pursued by the Houthi militias and to put pressure on them to allow immunization and vaccination teams to carry out their duties.

And he put in guard against the re-emergence of polio disease and its expansion in new governorates, which would pose a new challenge for Yemen and neighboring countries and would require the international community to assume its responsibilities in the face of this great danger, stressing that the World Health Organization must act urgently in coordination with the Ministry of Health to deal with this danger.

From the polio vaccination campaign in Sana'a in 2017 (archive)
From the polio vaccination campaign in Sana’a in 2017 (archive)

Committee approved mandatory Corona virus vaccination for all government employees and raised health sector readiness in response to global warnings of the new mutated Omicron of the Corona virus.

So far, Yemen has recorded 9,987 cases of Corona virus, including 1,964 deaths reported in areas of recognized legitimate government influence, while the Houthis refrain from sharing the outbreak developments with the media and they refuse to put vaccines in their control areas.

The number of people vaccinated in Yemen has reached about 600,000, thanks to vaccines sent through the global “Kofax” initiative, in one of the lowest immunization rates in the world.

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