Yemeni children are facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. More than 12.9 million children are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance and protection. An estimated 2.2 million children in Yemen are acutely malnourished, including nearly 540,000 children under the age of five suffering from severe acute malnutrition and are struggling to survive. These children need your immediate action to save their lives.
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Mental health counsellor Amin Al-Badri plays with Malak, aged three, who is being treated for haemolysis at MSF’s Mother and Child hospital in Houban. Amin provides psychosocial support to children and plays games with them to help relieve their pain and create a sense of happiness and security. Many of these children have no toys at home due to their family’s financial situation.
An estimated 8.1 million women and girls of childbearing age require help accessing reproductive health services across Yemen.
Zainab arrived at our hospital thirty weeks pregnant, fully dilated, expecting premature twin girls. With no options for pain relief, she was strong and determined in her efforts to deliver her babies. MSF staff such as Rachel Coyle, midwife supervisor (pictured above), help to provide safe care and deliveries in a low-resource setting to both mothers and babies.
The Mother and Child Hospital, run by MSF, allows approximately 1 million people in Taiz Houban access to free healthcare care. The maternity unit manages high-risk and complicated pregnancies delivering more than 500 babies per month, including over 80 caesareans, and has a family planning clinic, an urgent clinic and a high-risk clinic.
The focus is on children under five-years-old and pregnant women, who are most vulnerable and most susceptible to illness. Therapeutic feeding is provided to severely and moderately malnourished children who weigh less than half of what would be normal for their age and suffer from other illnesses because of a weakened immune system. Patients can also receive mental health counselling services. The hospital is consistently busy and is truly vital for the community.
We partner with world class charitable and humanitarian organisations, with proven track records of delivering child-centric programmes that make a significant impact to the lives of children in desperate need.
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