Global Pandemic: Yemen's Healthcare System is Collapsing

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🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Yemen's healthcare system has disintegrated under the strains of civil war and a late wave of COVID-19 that hit the country. Hospitals are closing down or refusing to admit COVID-19 patients and hospital workers without proper PPE are not going to work for fear of contracting it. FOX’s Trey Yingst speaks with Aaron Brent, the Yemen country director for CARE, about the situation in Yemen and what his organization is doing to help. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.0	Tuesday, September 1st, 2020, I'm Trey Inks.
0:41.0	With an unknown number of COVID-19 cases in Yemen, the war-torn country continues to face disaster.
0:47.8	About 50% of the Yemeni healthcare system was functional before the COVID-19 pandemic. That's due
0:54.0	basically to the war which has been going on for the last six years. A lot of health
0:58.4	facilities have been destroyed in airstrikes through fighting. This is the Fox News rundown, global pandemic.
1:08.8	After years of civil war, disease and waiting on the brink of famine. The people of Yemen are tired.
1:15.2	Now the coronavirus is pushing the country to the edge of an even more dire situation.
1:20.3	Over the next few minutes you'll get the latest headlines on the global COVID-19 outbreak.
1:24.7	And hear from Aaron Brent, the Yemen Country Director for Care.
1:28.3	Starting first in Syria where the United Nations expressed concern this week of a widespread COVID-19 outbreak.
1:34.7	Officially, under 3,000 cases are being reported with just over 100 deaths.
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