The UN health agency has warned about the \u201ccritical\u201d conditions of civilians in Yemen\u2019s Hudaydah, which has been subject to a Saudi-led offensive for weeks, saying military operations in the key port city threaten over 70 percent of the population who are in need of relief aid.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The UN health agency has warned about the \u201ccritical\u201d conditions of civilians in Yemen\u2019s Hudaydah, which has been subject to a Saudi-led offensive for weeks, saying military operations in the key port city threaten over 70 percent of the population who are in need of relief aid.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that the health conditions in Hudaydah were some of \u201cthe most dire in the country\u201d even before the assault began last month on the Red Sea port, a lifeline for the majority of Yemen\u2019s population.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hudaydah, the WHO said, had registered the highest incidences of suspected cholera cases – around 14 percent of those reported nationwide – with 209 suspected cases of diphtheria and 252 of measles.<\/p>\n
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The UN health agency has warned about the \u201ccritical\u201d conditions of civilians in Yemen\u2019s Hudaydah, which has been subject to a Saudi-led offensive for weeks, saying military operations in the key port city threaten over 70 percent of the population who are in need of relief aid.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The UN health agency has warned …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[866,172,457,68],"class_list":["post-6137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-cholera","tag-united-nations","tag-who","tag-yemen"],"yoast_head":"\n