Project Background

As a result of conflict escalation, the number of displaced people in Yemen has increased rapidly. According to  UNICEF 2020 report, 4.4 million Yemenis were internally displaced including 1.71 million children up until the end of 2020, more than 100,000 of them left their home for a safe destination in the first half of 2020. However, those displaced people are still vulnerable to disease outbreaks, natural disasters, and socio-political and economic contexts. They also lack access to health and educational facilities or even clean drinking water. According to IPC malnutrition report prepared by OCHA in Yemen, the number of affected people is more likely to increase in the first six months of 2021, when 16.2 million (54% of the population) are expected to experience acute levels of food insecurity – 11 million at crisis level (IPC Phase 3), 5 million at emergency level (IPC Phase 4) and 47,000 at catastrophic level (IPC Phase 5) in famine-like conditions.

       The health relief project aims to rehabilitate three health facilities in Sana’a and Taiz governorates to be able to providing care services for fevers and infectious diseases patients. The project will be implemented in three health facilities HFs, in Taiz (Altadamon HF-Al Qahera district and Islam HF-Almuaset district).  The project target fever and infectious diseases patients, by providing the following;

1. Providing the HFs with medicine, medical supplies, laboratory solutions and hygiene materials. 
2. Providing monthly allowance to the medical team and workers at HFs to increase the ability for receiving and treating more cases.
3. Providing the medical services for patients (medical consultations, treatment, or referring them to specialist hospitals, if needed, and follow them up).

Project Objective
To alleviate the sufferings of the people by raising the capacities of the targeted health facilities to be able to provide health care services to fever and infectious diseases patients.

Specific Objective

• To increase HFs capacity to receiving more fevers and infectious diseases patients.                        
• To provide medical services to fevers and infectious diseases.