[15/11/2026 01:50]

TAIZ - SABA
The Deputy Governor of Taiz governorate for Health Affairs Dr. Ilan Abdulhaq held a press conference today, Sunday, to review the health situation in the governorate amid the ongoing war and blockade imposed by Iran-backed Houthi terrorist militias.

She asserted that the health sector is facing extremely serious humanitarian and operational challenges, amid the ongoing blockade and shortages of medical supplies, fuel and oxygen, which has led to a decline in the capacity of hospitals and health facilities to provide essential and life-saving services.

The updated health indicators show that around 246,000 citizens are being deprived of basic healthcare services, and 12 major hospitals are at risk of shutting down due to a severe fuel shortage. Medical oxygen supplies have dropped to just 2 percent and petroleum derivatives to 5 percent, which threatens the lives of patients in intensive care units, operating rooms, and neonatal incubators, Abdulhaq noted.
She remarked that the deterioration of health services has directly affected the most vulnerable groups, especially children, pregnant women, patients with chronic diseases, kidney failure, and cancer, as well as causing a decline in vaccination, nutrition and reproductive health services, and increasing the risks of the spread of diseases and epidemics.

Abdullhaq noted the Yemeni-Swedish Hospital for Maternity and Children is facing serious operational challenges, which have led to a reduction in the number of working incubators from 40 to just 10, putting the lives of hundreds of newborns at risk… warning that the remaining ten incubators could stop entirely if the crisis continues.

The governor's deputy said: "More than 290 civilians have been killed or injured from August 1 to October 26, including 69 killed and 221 injured, some of them seriously".

She added: "The repercussions of the crisis have affected the health sector, leading to the suspension of 44 health facilities and 74 reproductive health facilities, as well as the shutdown of many maternity emergency facilities".

The deputy governor called on international and humanitarian organizations to quickly step in to secure fuel, medicines, oxygen, and medical supplies, provide emergency operational support to hospitals, and open safe and sustainable humanitarian corridors to ensure the delivery of medical supplies, save patients' lives, and prevent the health system in the governorate from collapsing.

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