Yemen
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to support Yemen’s fragile health system, providing comprehensive medical services and responding tosurging rates of malnutrition and preventable diseases.
Our activities in 2023
outpatient consultations
people admitted to hospital
births assisted, including 5160 caesarean sections
surgical interventions
individual mental health consultations
people treated for measles
children admitted to inpatient feeding programmes
The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Yemen is driven not only by armed conflict, but the consequent deterioration in the economy, which has had a severe impact on people’s health, living conditions and access to basic services. Affordable healthcare at the community level is extremely limited, and in some locations is non-existent.
Although the large-scale conflict generally abated in 2023, since October, and following an escalation in the Red Sea, multiple regions across the north of Yemen were bombed on a daily basis, exacerbating an already appalling humanitarian situation. Millions of Yemenis remain displaced and in desperate need of assistance.
In 2023, MSF supported 17 hospitals and 18 other health facilities across 13 governorates, focusing on maternal and child health, specialist and emergency care, and responding to malnutrition and outbreaks of preventable diseases such as cholera, diphtheria and measles. Due to the lack of basic healthcare in rural areas, the specialist facilities we support are often overwhelmed, as people tend to arrive with complications because they were unable to receive care when they needed it. To address this issue, we assisted health centres across the country by providing financial incentives to staff, training, donations of medicines, and funding for referrals to MSF-supported facilities.