After Injecting Corrupt Medicine; Public Anger Over 21 Children Dying of Cancer in Houthi Hospitals
A government official revealed that at least 21 children with cancer have died in Yemen and dozens have been seriously ill after undergoing expired treatment in the capital Sanaa, which is controlled by the Houthi terrorist militia.
A crime against humanity
Yemen’s internationally recognized government has been locked in a fierce war with the Iranian-backed Houthi militia for eight years. The conflict has damaged the country’s health sector, with only half of Yemen’s health facilities functioning, according to The National, and 21.9 million people in need of health assistance in 2022, including 12.6 million in need.
According to the World Health Organization, a statement issued by the Yemeni independent coalition said that the Houthi militia had injected more than 50 children sick with cancer with an expired dose of treatment at the Kuwait hospital, which led to the poisoning and death of more than 21 children so far. Activists and relatives of the children organized a protest in front of the United Nations headquarters in Geneva on Tuesday evening. The statement said: “We consider this a crime against humanity and international measures must be taken to punish the criminals from the militia leaders,” adding that the families of the children were blackmailed, pressured and threatened by the Houthis “so they do not speak against them,” he said.
In “cold blood”
The Houthis are using the help of the international community in health supplies to turn them “for their own interest,” said Yemeni Deputy Minister of Human Rights, Majid Al-Fadel. “They are smuggling expired medicines through companies owned by their leaders and selling them in local markets, which brings the group huge amounts of money.” It went on to say that activists and observers considered the Houthis’ actions as mass killings in areas under their control, a form of genocide. “The militia killed more than 20 children after getting the contaminated cancer drugs it sent to a number of hospitals under their control, and deprived them of the opportunity to receive treatment for these crimes that they desperately need, and encouraged the international community to treat them with cold blood,” Fadel said Further violations against the Yemeni people.”
