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Parents watch children take their last breaths, as cholera explodes in YemenWith 20 cholera deaths and 3,460 suspected cases reported in a single day, a state-of-emergency has been declared in the war-torn countrySANAA - Hundreds of people have taken over the corridors and lobby of state-run Al-Sabeen hospital in the heart of the Yemeni capital. Their eyes are dry, and they cannot hold back the vomit, as they desperately seek treatment for the cholera epidemic that has rapidly spread throughout the capital.Yemenis infected with cholera lie in the corridor of the Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen (MEE/Mohammed Hamoud) Some patients, including several children, have stopped breathing. Within a few minutes, doctors announce their deaths as grieving parents watch on.Doctor Nabil al-Najar, deputy head of Al-Sabeen hospital, goes around checking on patients. He said that hospitals, already worn down by two years of war, were being overwhelmed by the large number of people coming in for care. They receive at least 200 new cases every day in addition to patients who have been injured in air strikes....Hamamah Abdullah, 38, holds her little son Hassan, one, who is cholera-infected as they sit in the hallway of Al-Sabeen hospital (MEE/Mohammed Hamoud) Continued: http://www.middleeasteye.net/in-depth/features/yemen-1847792910
I believe we should show compassion per seeing these heartbreaking pictures but to me, it is as unnerving as can be to see those women compelled to and dressed in those "floor length black burkas" (see https://clarionproject.org/5-things-trump-saudi-arabia/ ). Even frightening.
