With funding from European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), the World Health Organization (WHO) is scaling up lifesaving trauma and nutrition services in high-risk and conflict-affected districts.
The 12-month project aims to strengthen essential health and livesaving nutrition services and improve access to quality care for vulnerable communities amid an increasingly fragile humanitarian situation.
Years of protracted conflict and regional hostilities, including continued air strikes, have left Yemen’s health system struggling to cope with the growing number of trauma and emergency cases. To address these gaps, WHO will deploy 6 specialized surgical teams to hospitals in Taiz, Hajjah, Al Hudaydah and Marib, restoring 24/7 emergency trauma and surgical services and the procurement of lifesaving medicines and surgical supplies.
