Wounded Yemenis in Khartoum
08 September, 2015KHARTOUM (SUDANOW)—Moving within Hajj al-Safi Hospital in Khartoum North, SUDANOW met with a number of members of the first batch of Yemenis wounded in the current armed conflict back home and arrived here this week for medical treatment.
One of the injured, Abdul Rahman Ahmed Alawy, said he had sustained a submachine-gun bullet while they were fleeing shelling by Houthi rebels on Ma'reb town at the beginning of the war.
Hussein Hassan al-Amoudy, another member of the Yemeni wounded group, said he was shot in the leg which was amputated from the thigh by a Sudanese medical team that had conducted a plastic surgery on the leg in the southern Yemeni town of Lahaj.
Amoudy said the anti-Houthi resistance forces are now exercising control of the situation in Lahaj and Aden.
"We have now come for further medical treatment in the Sudan where we are treated very well," Amoudy said.
His companion Ala'a Abdid Mohamed said the Sudanese doctors are providing appreciated medical services of diagnosis and treatment for cases in Yemen and they send critical cases to Sudan for further treatment.
Two officers of the Yemeni army said they are now recovering from head injuries after treatment by Sudanese doctors in Aden and are now here for follow-up. They both assured that the situation in South Yemen is under control of the resistance forces.
Patient Salah al-Fadil said he had his left arm amputated as he was hit by a missile in the war.
Nearly all the patients, especially the military-men, appeared optimistic that the war is nearing an end in favor of the resisting people of Yemen.
Foreign State Minister Obaidallah Mohamed Obaidallah praised the role being played by Sudanese media for covering the events in Yemen, stressing that the Sudanese government, from the outset, declared its position in support to the legitimacy in Yemen and decided to take part in the "Decisive Storm" for restoration of the legitimacy there.
Health Minister Baher Idriss Abu Gardah, who is the chairman of a high committee set up for the purpose, underlined that his Ministry would remain committed to President Omar al-Beshir's instructions of providing medical services to the injured Yemenis both in Yemen and Sudan.
Health State Minister Sumayah Idriss, who is the chairperson of a technical committee taking care of the Yemeni patients, said her committee includes representatives of government institutions and non-governmental organizations operating in the medical field.
There is a Sudanese medical team in Yemen which treats cases there and dispatches critical cases for treatment in Sudan, Sumayah said.
The Director of Hajj al-Safi Hospital, Ala'a Al-Dinn Yassin, said his hospital has received 58 patients and four companions. Those include 15 persons suffering upper limb injuries and three others suffering lower limb injuries while five would undergo general surgical operations and there is one person with critical injuries who has been placed in the intensive-care unit of the hospital, said Dr. Yassin, adding that all cases are stable.
Dr. Osman Ahmed Abdulla, Secretary-General of the Sudanese Red Crescent, said a Sudanese relief team was the first of its kind to arrive in Aden five days after the liberation of the city. Then two other Sudanese teams, one for fighting infectious diseases and other for provision of medical treatment arrived in South Yemen and began operation in coordination with the Yemeni Red crescent and health authorities.
He said they had recently paid a visit to Aden for assessment of the health situation and then they travelled to Saudi Arabia for a meeting of the Arab Red Crescent societies for discussion on provision of the required medical services in Yemen.
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