[08/06/2017 06:50]
RIYADH-SABA
Yemen Minister of Public Health has said that curability from cholera is very high as of the 96,000 persons hospitalized upon infection, "94,800 people have been treated and discharged from hospitals" "Ten experts from the WHO and with support from King Salman's Relief Center are also in their way to Yemen to assist the medical teams deployed in the field.
"We have, in our stocks, enough intravenous fluids for 900 thousand persons, enough to cover Yemen's 23 provinces, so it is not just the government-controlled provinces," minister Naser Baoom said in a meeting with LA Minister the chairman of the Supreme Committee for Relief and the General Supervisor of King Salman's Center Abdullah Arrabi'ah.
"The health situation in Yemen has never been at its best even before the war," said the health minister. "But efforts are now being exerted by Yemen's Health Ministry and our brothers in the GCC, mainly King Salman's Relief Center."
The minister said that upon the emergency of cholera a special team consisting of the health ministries of Yemen and the Arab Gulf nations, the WHO, the UNICEF and the international health organizations to coordinate their efforts and unify them in containing this epidemic.
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