COVID-19 has had a devastating effect on the whole world, be it peoples’ precious lives and wellbeing, the economy or the lifestyle. But already in a country that is known as the “land of milk and honey” which is going through a grave crisis corona has added to the pot of misery for the innocent lives living in Yemen who were already suffering. The situation is so dire that it has been declared an emergency.
According to UNICEF Yemen is going through the world’s largest humanitarian crisis and due to this many localities who reside in Yemen would like to migrate in search of better lives to UK and other countries. The children who are yet to explore the world have not even been given a chance to go to schools. Due to the disturbing scenario surrounding the people the suicide rates have increased and the county might soon be wiped out from the world map if this continues. Yemen is one of the countries which a high population of youth that is around 40% of the people living in Yemen are under the age of 15.
The population of Yemen is 2.85 crore and it is a country located in the extreme west of Asia, not only are most of the people in Yemen facing a hunger crisis, most of them don’t even get one meal to eat in a day and on the other hand the country is struck by war and terrorism. The war has left more than half of the population without any resource and starvation is accompanied by lack of safe drinking water, access to other basic sanities and unemployment is not there and it also had one of the worst cholera outbreaks in the world.
Yemen is going through a violent phase where a civil war is raging its fire on the lives and this war is known as the proxy war, Saudi Arabia vs Iran is waging a war against Yemen whose consequences are affecting the people.
It already has the lowest HDI rank amongst all the Arab countries and is in dire need of a change which would foster growth and development.
With all this going on, corona virus came like the wind and has created even more damage, corona virus has made the scenario even more worse as it has gripped the whole country under its vicious cycle. According to UNICEF around 2 million children didn’t have the privilege to go to school and post COVID-19 around 5 million children are now at home.
The post COVID -19 scenario is extremely tragic as they do not have half of the essential medical aid and the infrastructure of the hospital is not upgraded, they don’t have the essential medicines and lack other basic equipments as well. Many experts have stated that the health system has stopped functioning in the right manner due to lack of medical facilities, timely treatment and the lack of doctors which has collapsed the health system in Yemen. Till now from the 705 COVID-19 cases there have been 160 deaths.
Many helping hands, organisation and Charity workers are lending their energy in this alarming situation where the country is on the brink of dying. Already more than half of the population is going through starvation and with super low immunity levels to overcome the pandemic is going to be tedious task. Saudi Arabia along with other donors conducted a conference on the improvement of the devastating situation in Yemen, hopefully with timely intervention good times will be approaching Yemen.
Abdhi Upadhyay
Eduindex News 
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