The scene here speaks louder than any words.
Aisha, an eleven-year-old Yemeni girl, is waiting for a dialysis session.
This man, Aisha’s father, is pale in face and traces of fatigue and exhaustion are evident on his features, due to the difficulty of traveling between the Tur Al-Baha district in Lahj governorate and the dialysis center in the interim Yemeni capital, Aden.
Aisha’s father tries to relieve her until her long-awaited session comes due to the severe shortage of necessary equipment and the large number of patients arriving at the center.
The small dialysis center in Al-Sadaqa Hospital is the second governmental dialysis center in Aden, after Al-Jumhuriya Hospital Center, where it opened in 2014 and turned into a main center in Aden during the Houthi war in 2015, with a bed capacity of 15 beds, while the number of The medical staff at the center consists of 7 nurses and doctors, including two basic employees, and 5 contractors for years.
All beds are occupied with cases of renal failure of both sexes, amid health care from the medical staff under the supervision of Dr. Jabin Abdel Shakour, who expressed her regret at the lack of response from all official and competent authorities to the center despite the great role it has been providing for years while it relies on donations and individual initiatives.
At the end of the year 2022, the dialysis center in Al-Sadaqa Hospital announced the closure of its doors and the cessation of receiving any new medical cases, after all dialysis solutions ran out, which necessitated some activists to launch distress calls and urgent appeals on social media platforms.
It is one of the many images documenting the reality of the painful suffering experienced by the Yemeni citizen amid the silence of those concerned, whose patience has been long overdue.