By Iffy.
Ten children diagnosed with leukaemia, have reportedly died, following the administration of smuggled medicine, in a public Kuwait hospital, in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital.
According to a statement released by the Houthi-controlled health authorities on Friday, Ten out of about twenty children, aged between three and fifteen, who received the treatment had died, while nine were currently in critical condition.
It said “bacterial contamination” had been discovered in the injections administered to the children, adding that the medication had been smuggled into the country.
AFP reports that smuggled medicines are common for hospitals across war-torn Yemen, due to shortage of drugs, equipment and funds, owing to the fact that more than half of Yemen’s medical facilities have been paralysed since the civil war broke out.
Recall Houthi rebels captured large parts of northern Yemen in 2014 and drove the Saudi-backed Yemeni government out of Sanaa, plunging the Arab country into a civil war that continues till date.
The war has led to the death of tens of thousands of people, displaced four million, and pushed the Arab country to the edge of starvation.
