Aid groups act to stop Yemen's next major cholera epidemic
Al-Monitor visits a cholera treatment center in Yemen, where a three-year war has intensified the spread of the contagious illness.
AMRAN, Yemen — After a fortnight of suffering from acute diarrhea, Dhaifullah al-Yemeni finally vomited, and was subsequently transferred to the Cholera Treatment Center in the Khamir district of Amran, in central Yemen.
He was close to death, just like those who died before him on their way to the hospital due to lack of awareness of the disease's symptoms, and those who pass away at home because they cannot afford transportation.
“I threw up a lot yesterday,” Yemeni recalled, while receiving treatment at the Cholera Treatment Center affiliated with Doctors Without Borders (known by its French initials, MSF) in Khamir on April 12. “It's been 15 days of suffering from acute watery diarrhea, but no vomiting. Yesterday [April 11] I decided to come here.”
Yemeni, 65, is an internally displaced person from Maran, in the northwestern Saada province, the birthplace and stronghold of Abdul Malek al-Houthi, the leader of the Houthi group.
