kovin 19 has brought Yemen's health
system to a complete collapse that's
according to the medical charity Doctors
Without Borders the real numbers of dead
there are almost impossible to determine
with low levels of testing and some
authorities suppressing the true death
toll Yemen was already facing the
world's worst humanitarian crisis after
a conflict which started more than five
years ago with Houthi rebels backed by
Iran fighting Yemen's government which
is backed by a coalition led by Saudi
Arabia and supported by the US and the
UK our chief international correspondent
Lee's de cette has this report in a
nation scarred by war a new landscape of
loss the dead taking more space from the
living as a graveyard grows in southern
Yemen no one knows how many are dying of
kovat 19 but with every day more Yemenis
know this this pain of life and death in
the time of the virus
and doctors see the worst doctors Oh
al-saadi works in an intensive care unit
in the southern city of Aden she's just
finished her night shift the whole
situation in Aden is very bad the people
died in a hospital that people died in
ambulance were they waiting for
Amityville the people died in hell we
can do anything all day
they just suffering under there's little
dignity in this death and great disquiet
here in northern Yemen the Houthi
authorities tried to hide how many died
from the virus
so some bury the dead in the dead of
night men dressed in white fearing for
their own lives but someone at this
graveside sent us these images so his
friend Ussuri isn't forgotten a young
dentist said to be killed by cult at 19
his father died two days before him his
wife fell ill we've heard so many
stories a doctor in northern Yemen tells
me he stopped going to work at the
health ministry
it's too dangerous he says the
authorities say that the situation is
under control now is that truly from the
ministry maybe one or two died one
evening this deadly virus is moving
undetected across the country twisted
into by a long war and all the old
pestilence including cholera Yemen's
health system has all but collapsed
testing for kovat 19 among the lowest in
the world across this country doctors
tell us their beds are full they don't
know where to put the sick and dying
and there's so little specialist care
doctors like Hyrule Musa doing whatever
they can a bit of despair that I can't
oh we can't do more for the patients
here and I guess you know we try we try
our hardest with what we have and you
know for each day the Sun still rises so
we do what we can you know but it's hard
it's really hard the disease itself is
ravaging through lives Yemenis have so
few defenses and last week a UN appeal
for life-saving funds fell far short in
a world of kovat 19 it's feared Yemen
could suffer the greatest catastrophe of
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