“There’s no oxygen, there’s no fuel to run the incubators, to keep the babies warm,” Nada Ahmed, a nurse in the neonatal unit of the Yemeni-Swedish Hospital for Maternity and Childhood, told Reuters. REUTERS/Ebrahim al-Suhaibi
\n\nFuel shortages in Yemen’s besieged city of Taiz have forced a hospital to reduce the number of operational incubators from 40 to just 10, putting newborn babies at risk as fighting disrupts essential supplies and worsens the humanitarian crisis.
\n\nAccording to Reuters, the shortages have left medical facilities struggling to maintain oxygen supplies, electricity and other critical services. The crisis has intensified after weeks of clashes between the Saudi-backed Yemeni government and the Iran-aligned Houthi movement.
\n\n“There’s no oxygen, there’s no fuel to run the incubators, to keep the babies warm,” Nada Ahmed, a nurse in the neonatal unit of the Yemeni-Swedish Hospital for Maternity and Childhood, told Reuters.
\n\nNawal Najeeb, a supervisor in the hospital’s neonatal unit, warned that the facility could be forced to suspend operations if fuel deliveries do not arrive.
\n\n“It will be a catastrophe for the babies, a catastrophe of deaths and disabilities,” she said.
\n\nTaiz has been largely isolated since October 3, with fighting restricting humanitarian deliveries and preventing…
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