Al- Thawra Net
The Saudi-led coalition has caused the death of another child patient. Amira Abdullah al-Zaidi, who suffered a weakened heart valve, was pronounced dead on Sunday.
Her death added to a total of more than 27,000 patients who are being prevented of traveling for treatment abroad by the coalition’s blockade of Yemeni airspace.
The Director of Sirwah district, Mari al-A’meri, announced the death of Amira Abdullah al-Zaidi on Sunday, after bitter suffering of a weakness of heart valves.
Al-A’meri added that the invading coalition had refused to allow her family to travel for treatment abroad.
“The local authority has applied to the United Nations office in Sana’a to allow the family of the girl, Amira al-Zaidi, to travel outside the country for treatment due to her critical health condition, according to doctors ‘ decision in Sanaa hospitals,” al-A’meri said.
“But the aggression coalition refused the United Nations’ demand to allow the travel of the girl, who suffers from the weakness of the heart valves due to cluster bombs and poisonous gases dropped by the aggression on Sirwah district of Ma’rib province,.”
“The death of Amira is a disgrace to the United Nations because of its failure to save her life, as well as the lives of thousands of Yemeni patients who died as a result of the blockade imposed by the Saudi-led coalition and the closure of Sana’a International Airport since August 2016,” al-A’meri said.
The coalition has imposed an air embargo on the airports of Sana’a, Hodeidah and Taiz, effectively halting all civilian traffic flights.
This has caused a major humanitarian disaster, which led to “the deaths of more than 27,000 patients whose conditions require their access to treatment outside Yemen were prevented by coalition,” according to the Ministry of Health reports on numbers accurate up until the end of 2018.
