After cholera and diphtheria, outbreak of Cancer destructing Yemen; at least 11,000 new patients diagnosed each year

Sana’a, August 29: First cholera then diphtheria and now Cancer has brought disaster in Yemen. Notably, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday estimated that around 35,000 people have cancer in war-torn Yemen.

 

The WHO has estimated that around 35,000 people have cancer in Yemen, with 11,000 new patients diagnosed each year. Many of them are children. After the estimation, WHO blamed the ongoing civil war in Yemen.

WHO in a statement said, While the United Nations is warning of the potential of a third cholera outbreak in Yemen, the almost four-year-long civil war is taking its toll on cancer patients now.” “But in a place where the economy and the infrastructure have collapsed, it is difficult to get the life-saving treatment people so desperately need,” WHO added.

BACKGROUND:

An epidemic late last year faded but outbreaks are frequent and made worse by the degrading of health and sanitation systems by more than four years of civil war that has also killed at least 10,000 people and displaced millions.

Since April 2017 to February 2018, more than 1,060,000 suspected cases of cholera and 2300 deaths have been reported in Yemen. 96% parts of Yemen was severely hampered and affected.

In 2011, some 719,377 suspected cases of cholera were recorded in Haiti, and 8,767 people died, according to national figures cited by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.