Yemeni medical sources revealed that the number of deaths of leukemia children in the capital, Sanaa, which is under the control of the Houthi militia, as a result of injecting them with expired chemical drug, has risen to 18.
Activists and local news websites quoted sources as saying that more than 40 children with leukemia patients in the leukemia unit of the Oncology Center, located in the courtyard of Kuwait Hospital, were injected at the end of last September with expired methotrexate.
She pointed out that the Houthi medical authorities covered up the incident after the children showed symptoms, and rushed to transfer the injured to a number of hospitals in the capital.
She added that the injection victims rose to 18 deaths as of Monday evening, while dozens are still in intensive care in a number of Sana’a hospitals.
The head of the Yemeni Organization for Combating Human Trafficking published pictures of some children who he said were victims of an expired dose of cancer drugs.
The Yemeni Organization for Combating Trafficking in Persons had accused the Ministry of Health under the control of the Houthi militia in Sana’a of dispensing a dose of expired medicines after changing the validity date, which caused the death and injury of dozens of children with cancer.
In a statement, the organization confirmed the death of dozens of children with cancer in Sana’a due to a corrupt dose of cancer treatment during the past week at the end of September 2022 AD.
She explained that the Ministry of Public Health and Population in the Houthi militia government dispensed an expired dose of treatment after the validity date was falsified, and it was dispensed at the Kuwait Hospital for Children with Cancer.
The Yemeni Organization for Combating Human Trafficking also accused the Houthi authorities in Sana’a of covering up the crime and preventing the publication of any information about it, “especially in light of the strong relationship between the Houthi health minister called Taha Al-Mutawakel and the corrupt director of Kuwait Hospital Amin Al-Junaid,” according to the statement.
It called on international organizations to go to the field hospital in Kuwait and conduct an investigation into the matter, and stressed the need to reveal and prosecute those involved.