Mobile Health Teams Reach 600,000 Yemeni Kids Affected by Saudi Violence: UNICEF

The children have received treatment for childhood infections, been screened for malnutrition, dewormed, vaccinated and given vitamin supplements, the official website of the UN reported.

In addition to the children, UNICEF said that more than 180,000 pregnant and breastfeeding mothers have received vital services, including antenatal and postnatal care.

Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been launching deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.

Nearly 10,000 Yemenis, including 4,000 women and children, have lost their lives in the deadly military campaign.

"In Yemen, which is now a country where the health system is crumbling, UNICEF and its partners have successfully reached through a mobile health team, 600,000 children under five years of age with life-saving health and nutrition services. For families who do not have access to health services, idea of this mobile health team is to go to them. Between 24 and 29 September, over 34,000 health workers spread across the 333 districts of Yemen, with vehicles, motorcycles, donkeys or simply walking long distances and difficult terrains to reach women and children in remote corners of the country,” Christophe Boulierac, a spokesperson for the agency in Geneva, said.

In the past year and a half alone, because of the deteriorating health services, over 10,000 children died from preventable conditions such as diarrhea and pneumonia.