The Condition of the Remaining Cancer Center in Operation in Yemen, May 12, 2017

Every month over 600 come to the only up and running oncology center Al-Jumhuri in Yemen located in Sana’a, seeking treatment. The staggering number of patients has been on the rise since the start of the conflict between the in-country armed parties and external Saudi-led coalition forces. On January 16, 2017, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs stated that as a low estimate over 10,000 civilians had been killed since the start of the civil war. The war has triggered an economic collapse forcing Yemeni health staff to work without pay and undercutting patients' ability to afford their own treatment which eventually lead a lot of the patients to quit their treatment as their families couldn’t afford medication, transportation and all other related accommodations.