Yemen raises fears of damage to medicines in the airport refrigerator

The Director-General of Drug Supply Stores in the Yemeni Ministry of Health, Ibrahim al-Shami, confirmed that the well-known medicines found in the Sana’a airport refrigerator, since the Saudi coalition closed the airport, have become vulnerable to damage as they require special air transport and storage conditions.
Al-Shami said in a statement, that the indications of citizens’ demand for chronic diseases medicines are high in the ministry’s drug supply stores, in light of the great scarcity of these items, noting that the Ministry of Health is trying hard to provide vital medicines to those in need with the continued obstacles imposed by the coalition on the entry of medicines to Yemenis.
For his part, Head of the Export Department at the Ministry of Health’s stores, Abdul Nasser al-Quraishi, said that refrigerator medicines would save the lives of people with chronic diseases, such as medicines for patients with liver, diabetes, blood diseases, strokes, dialysis, obstetrics and gynecology, stressing that the Ministry’s stockpile of medicine for patients with multiple sclerosis is sufficient to treat 6 patients.
Al-Quraishi pointed out that many patients with multiple sclerosis are not aware of the presence of their medicines in the Ministry’s stores.