Yemen has been suffering from a decade of civil war. Environmental pollution, shortage of clean water, electricity power outage, and Dengue disease strikes Yemen population. Thousands of people have been diagnosed with Dengue fever in Southern Yemen, where fighting has raged for months between Shi-ite rebels and their opponents, International Organizations and health officials said last Thursday.The top health ministry official in the southern port city of Aden, Al-Khadr al-Aswar, told The Association Press that at lease 5,000 people have been diagnosed with the mosquito-borne virus disease, Dengue fever. He said that mounts of uncollected garbage in towns and cities, along with untreated sewage and heat, have contributed to the spread of the Dengue Fever disease. Poor sanitation conditions resulting from inadequate clean up technology and resources to clean up garbages, dirts, sewages, and stagnant filthy water in cities, towns and villages have contributed to the outbreak of the Dengue fever disease. Shortage of clean drinking water in the country enables many citizens to rely on drinking water sources from untreated irrigation systems. Unsafe and poor management of sanitation system in Yemen has contributed to mass environmental air and water pollution and poor health conditions. According to the Minister of health in Yemen, “The sanitation conditions in Yemen is severely bad and it will take a long period of time for the country to improve it.”—–WHO Report.
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Burki, Talha. 2016. Yemen’s neglected health and humanitarian crisis. The Lancet,, london. 387(10020); 734–735.