Hospitals in Yemen’s Taiz governorate are struggling to maintain lifesaving services amid critical shortages of fuel, oxygen, medicines and medical supplies. With hospital services severely disrupted and stocks running dangerously low, urgent action is needed to sustain lifesaving care for thousands of patients.

In Taiz city alone, 42 health facilities are reporting acute shortages. More than 1110 people with kidney failure require dialysis sessions daily, 192 patients are receiving intensive care, and 154 newborns are in incubators. Without urgent replenishment emergency surgery, dialysis, intensive care and maternal and neonatal services face further disruption.

Hospitals and ambulances require more than 156 000 litres of fuel each month to maintain operations. Fuel shortages also threaten oxygen production, emergency transport and vaccine cold-chain systems. The Ministry of Public Health and Population reports that the situation is critical. Frequent communication network outages have hampered efforts to obtain updated information, and WHO is working with health authorities to verify remaining fuel stocks and assess the extent of disruption to hospital services.