{"id":29734,"date":"2026-09-30T10:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=29734"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:09:09","slug":"un-warns-yemen-health-system-is-under-severe-pressure-as-fighting-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=29734","title":{"rendered":"UN Warns Yemen Health System Is Under Severe Pressure as Fighting Escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The United Nations and World Health Organization are warning that renewed fighting in Yemen is placing additional pressure on an already weakened health system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">WHO reported that more than <strong>122,000 people have been displaced<\/strong> by the latest escalation across eight governorates. Between 6 August and 18 September, authorities reported <strong>3,672 casualties<\/strong>, including 674 deaths and 2,998 injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">WHO said only around <strong>60 percent of assessed health service delivery units are fully functioning<\/strong>, while full trauma-care services are available in just 6 percent of assessed facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The agency is also concerned about cholera, measles, dengue, diphtheria and malnutrition, with displacement and overcrowding increasing the risks of disease transmission and disrupting access to essential medical services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Support independent journalism:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?page_id=1083&amp;utm_source=chatgpt.com\">Support HRNW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong> This report is based on publicly available information and official WHO and United Nations sources. HRNW is an independent news platform and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the United Nations or WHO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations and World Health Organization are warning that renewed fighting in Yemen is placing additional pressure on an already weakened health system. WHO reported that more than 122,000 people have been displaced by the latest escalation across eight governorates. Between 6 August and 18 September, authorities reported 3,672 casualties, including 674 deaths and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":29735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29736,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29734\/revisions\/29736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}