INTRODUCTION

The Yemeni governorates have shown a remarkable evolution in upgrading health care services for citizens, through the promotion of primary health care interventions and enhanced accessibility to community-based care, in addition to facility-based services by operating more units, health centers and hospitals. This has been associated with a noticeable increase in the number of beds and qualified medical staff and health workers. The expansion in preventive and curative services and the institutionalization of the work of central programs in areas of disease control, surveillance, immunization, and maternal and child health was crowned with the National Vision towards Building the Modern Yemeni State, in order to consolidate the participatory approach in providing health care services, in accordance to the related relief and development requirements, identification of priorities that would improve health indicators, and fulfillment the population’s basic needs.