The United Nations announced that the United Arab Emirates topped the world's largest donor country for the 2019 Yemeni people by supporting the United Nations Humanitarian Response Plan in Yemen, while the UAE has supported the health sector in Yemen with medical facilities and campaigns against epidemics.

The UN report in the UN OCHA report on the level of funding for Yemen's humanitarian response plan for 2019 reflects the assistance provided to Yemen from the beginning of 2019 to July 2, 2019.

UAE assistance to the Yemeni people from 2015 to June 2019 amounted to 20.53 billion dirhams ($ 5.59 billion), with humanitarian assistance accounting for 34 percent of the UAE's total assistance of 6.93 billion dirhams ($ 1.89 billion) , While developmental assistance, rehabilitation and support projects for the restoration of stability took 66% of the aid amounting to 13.60 billion dirhams (US $ 3.70 billion) to contribute to the reconstruction efforts in many liberated Yemeni governorates and to provide livelihoods and stability in many areas.

The assistance provided included 15 main sectors of aid and 49 sub-sectors, indicating the universality of the UAE's assistance and its containment of all aspects of life in Yemen towards contributing to stability and development in those governorates and other Yemeni areas.

In the same context, over the past six months, the UAE has continued its humanitarian efforts to support the health sector in Yemen.

The Emirates News Agency (WAM) highlighted the UAE's most important projects, programs and initiatives related to health in the first half of this year, which coincided with the Year of Tolerance.

According to the report, the UAE support for the health sector in Yemen includes the opening and rehabilitation of specialized hospitals and health centers, programs to combat diseases and epidemics, training programs for medical personnel, and ensuring the treatment of medical cases outside Yemen.

"The UAE has rehabilitated 23 hospitals and health centers in the liberated governorates of Yemen, including six hospitals in Taiz and Hadramout, 11 health centers in the West Coast and Hadramout, and rehabilitation of two specialist clinics in Aden and Suthery, as well as four clinics in the West Coast and Aden," the report said.

In the same period, the UAE provided support to 200 humanitarian cases, 300 wounded in the Houthi terrorist attacks, while the Yemeni Ministry of Health handed over nine containers of medicines that contributed to alleviating the suffering of thousands of Yemenis.

These continued efforts have translated the message of the UAE and its humanitarian attitude toward the brothers in Yemen to the medical sector, which has been devastated and systematically destroyed by the Iranian Houthi militias, which continued to target all elements of life in Yemen, including targeting medical facilities and preventing access to medical assistance.

In the West Coast, the UAE has rehabilitated seven health centers: Al Zahari Center in Al Mukhaa, Abuzahr and Qataya Centers in Al Khokha, Bahader and Al Jariba Centers and Taif in Al Durahmi.

The UAE provided medicines and medical supplies to 10 medical centers and paid medical staff salaries.

In Shabwa, specifically in Marrakha al-Sufla, the UAE launched a mobile clinic to combat dengue fever and was accompanied by a pre-emptive spraying campaign. Socotra and Emirati support witnessed the opening of emergency departments and operations at Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Hospital.

The UAE has started the rehabilitation and rehabilitation project of Al Mukha General Hospital. In addition, a medical unit and a maternity and childhood center have been opened in the Directorate of the Distributor, specifically in Taiz, with a shipment of medicines and nutritional supplements for the children.

In the same context, the UAE ensured that hundreds of Yemenis were treated in the Emirates, Egypt, Sudan, India and Jordan hospitals.

The last six months saw the sending of three new batches of patients and incurable cases. The state last March treated 62 patients in Indian hospitals and then infected them with 24 people in June, and transferred patients to treatment in Egypt under a cooperation protocol.

The number of cases handled abroad has increased to more than 11,000. These figures reflect the care the UAE attaches to raising the level of health care for the brotherly Yemeni people, alleviating the suffering, improving their humanitarian conditions and supporting them against the crimes committed against them by the Huthi militias To Iran.

These efforts affirm that the human being in Yemen is the goal, and that providing a decent life deprived of the brothers in Yemen for many years and for various reasons is what the UAE seeks to secure from a humanitarian point of view consistent with its mission, emphasizing the role it requires to stand with the brothers in Yemen They were targeted against their most basic rights. The UAE launched a year of tolerance of the arrival of a shipment of drugs weighing 25 tons to the port of Aden for distribution to health centers in the West Coast, and opened the medical clinic of the Faculty of Economics and Political Science.

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Billion dirhams the size of the UAE aid to Yemen since 2015.

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A hospital and a health center rehabilitated by the UAE within six months.