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Reuters
Reuters
Health
By Abdulrhman Al-Ansi and Khaled Abdullah

In Yemen, medical shortages compound suffering of cancer patients

FILE PHOTO: Nurses attend to Ayoub Jabri, who suffers from neck cancer, at the emergency ward of the National Oncology Center in Sanaa, Yemen January 10, 2023. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Ali Jabri cradles his sobbing son Ayoub ahead of chemotherapy treatment at Yemen's largest cancer hospital in the capital Sanaa where an eight-year war has led to shortages in life-saving medicine and equipment.

The 12-year-old is one of 81,000 patients registered with the National Oncology Center (NOC) from across Yemen seeking free treatment, which has increasingly been limited by shrinking funds and restrictions on flow of goods in the import-reliant country.

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