Yemenis have commended King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center outstanding services since its inception. The organization's health services have benefited 11 million Yemeni children, women and men during the past months. According to a report in Al-Jazirah Arabic daily, the center's health programs for Yemenis were carried out with the support of World Health Organization (WHO). The agency financed four polio vaccination campaigns benefiting 4.74 million children (93 percent of total targeted children), the report said. It financed five programs to treat child diseases and provide vaccinations against them. More than 300,000 children benefited from these programs, the report said. WHO organized two more campaigns with the support of its health partners to provide vaccines against measles and rubella, benefiting 4.74 million children while its integrated health services benefited more than 300,000 children, the report said. The center extends financial support to 25 mobile medical clinics providing life-saving health services. "These clinics play a big role in preventing the spread of infectious diseases and extended treatment to more than 55,000 women and 42,000 children," it added. The center has financed the deployment of 12 medical teams in the Yemeni provinces of Sanaa, Aden, Abyan, Sa'dah, Hajjah and Socotra for providing primary healthcare services. They provided consultancy services to 132,000 women and children. "We have financed the purchase and distribution of 900 ton of medicine and medical appliances in the various targeted provinces of Yemen," said a center official requesting anonymity. He added that it benefited more than 1.6 million women and children. The center financed WHO to supply 735,000 liters of fuel for the functioning of blood bank, central laboratory, 59 hospitals, four dialysis centers and two tumor centers in 19 provinces. "More than 660,000 women and children benefited from this service," the official said. The center supported WHO to establish 18 nutrition centers, which extended their services to 17,280 children suffering from malnutrition. "More than a million people including 260,000 women benefited from its program to supply purified drinking water." Speaking about other services, the report said the center financed an early warning system for infectious diseases introduced by WHO in order to help the Yemeni health ministry to deal with such diseases quickly and efficiently. The system was instrumental in providing quick health response to infectious diseases in all provinces of the country, the official said.
