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Dozens of Yemenis Flown to Jordan for Medical Treatment

Dale Gavlak

   AMMAN - A medical airbridge from Yemen to Jordan set up in the past two
   weeks has delivered 29 Yemenis, who are now being treated in Jordanian
   hospitals.

   The United Nations flights are viewed as a humanitarian breakthrough in
   the five-year conflict afflicting the Arab world's poorest country,
   where hospitals have been bombed and medicine is scarce.

   The Yemeni patients are being aided by the World Health Organization
   and the non-governmental International SOS group.

   Dubbed, "mercy flights," Yemeni medical patients -- ages five to well
   into their 50s -- from Houthi rebel-held areas suffering from
   congenital heart disease, kidney failure, brain tumors and various
   cancers, are in Amman for treatment.

   U.N. Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths said, so far, two flights have
   transported patients to "receive life-saving medical care currently
   unavailable in Yemen."

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