The scene here speaks louder than any words.
Aisha, an eleven-year-old Yemeni girl, is waiting for a dialysis session.
This man, Aisha’s father, is pale in the face and traces of tiredness and exhaustion are evident on his features, due to the difficulty of traveling between the district of Tur Al-Baha in the governorate of Lahj and the dialysis center in the capital provisional of Yemen, Aden.
Aisha’s father is trying to relieve her until her long-awaited session arrives due to the severe shortage of necessary equipment and the large number of patients arriving at the centre.
Al-Sadaqa hospital small dialysis center is the second government dialysis center in Aden, after Al-Jumhuriya hospital center where it was opened in 2014, and turned into main center in Aden during Houthi war in 2015, with one bed The accommodation capacity is 15 beds, while the number of medical personnel in the center is made up of 7 nurses and doctors, two of whom are basic employees, and 5 collaborators for years.
All beds are occupied by renal failure cases of both genders, amidst the care of medical personnel under the supervision of Dr. Jabeen Abdel Shakour, who expressed his regret for the lack of response from all official and relevant authorities at the center despite the large role it has played for years by relying on individual donations and initiatives.
At the end of the year 2022, the Al-Sadaqa hospital dialysis center announced the closure of its doors and the cessation of receiving new medical cases, after all dialysis solutions had been exhausted, which required some activists to launch distress calls and urgent appeals on social media platforms.
It is one of the many images that document the reality of the painful suffering experienced by the Yemeni citizen in the silence of those concerned, whose patience has been long awaited.
