An international medical organization revealed an unprecedented spread of measles cases, especially among children in areas under the control of the Houthi group in Taiz Governorate, southwest of Yemen.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said in a statement issued by Today, Thursday: “We are witnessing an unprecedented increase in the number of children infected with measles in the organization’s Taiz Al-Hawban Mother and Child Hospital, as the total number of patients admitted to the hospital has reached more than 547 children since last June.”
The statement expressed concern. It is dangerous that the number of cases of infection with the disease is greater than what reaches the hospital, and he said: “We fear that the number of infected people will be much greater, because what reaches us is only the number of people who are able to reach the hospital to obtain medical treatment, or when their symptoms become very apparent.” "It cannot be ignored."
The organization confirmed in its statement that there is an active transmission of this highly contagious disease among the community, because the majority of our patients come from the various areas surrounding Al-Hawban, mainly from the districts of Al-Ta’aziyah, Dimnat Khadir, and Sabr Al-Mawadim.
The coordinator of the “Doctors Without” project explained Limits” in Taiz Al-Hawban, Joseph Alec, said that the number of patients increased by at least 10-fold in just three months, “which is a worrying increase that we have not witnessed since the day we started working in this hospital seven years ago.”
The statement indicated that In response to the outbreak, Doctors Without Borders established an 18-bed expandable isolation unit in the hospital, and has treated more than 490 patients so far, most of them children between the ages of nine months and five years, and has also referred at least 100 patients to receive critical care. In other health facilities.
It is noteworthy that the Houthi group still refuses to implement vaccination campaigns in areas under its control, which has led to an increase in virus infections and outbreaks that can be prevented by vaccination.