UAE sends medical assistance team to Yemen‏

The Emirates Red Crescent, ERC, has implemented intensified campaigns in various districts of Yemen's Red Sea Coast, including Taiz and Hodeidah, to fight cholera, as part of the UAE's continued support to the health sector in Yemen's Red Sea Coast, UAE's news agency reported. The UAE's philanthropic organisation offered the government hospitals, units and health centers the necessary medicines and intravenous solutions and the assistance also included providing hospitals with successive batches of medicines, especially in the Al Waziyah and Mocha districts in the Taiz Governorate  and Hayes and Tuhyta districts in Hodeidah.  

The agency also said that as part of the UAE's continued support to the health sector, ERC also sent mobile clinics to a number of remote villages in the south of Tuhyta district and was able to save 280 families. Its medical team implemented an intensified campaign for 20 days in Moza' District and for 16 days in Al Waziyah district, which successfully managed to combat the epidemic.