Kidney Dialysis Patients in Taiz Face Blocked Roads and Supply Shortages

There are different kinds of sieges. But for kidney failure patients, there were two kinds, according to the Taiz Health Office.

He said 1,100 patients used to benefit from dialysis.

One thousand one hundred patients. Now there are 516.

What will happen to the rest of the patients?

For your information, they used to come from rural areas and places that are now under Houthi militia control.

Now, because of the roads. Because of the shelling on the road.

Because of the shells on the road. Patients can't get there safely. The second kind.

Now the centers are at risk of shutting down due to a shortage of solutions.

A shortage of fuel. A shortage of treatments because they can't get through.

Now, come and see what's inside the center.

The center is suffering from a severe shortage of intravenous solutions as well as dialysis materials and supplies.

The center could shut down at any moment because it has no diesel, which is the source of power for the center.

Patients also face great hardship getting to the center.

Most patients resort to spending the night outside the center, lying on the ground and covering themselves.

He says it's cold. Due to the lack of accommodation for patients, and his inability to get to his home, and his fear of not being able to reach the center on time.