{"id":2677,"date":"2026-10-14T15:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:04:25","slug":"yemen-hospitals-overwhelmed-by-surge-in-war-casualties-red-cross-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2677","title":{"rendered":"Yemen hospitals overwhelmed by surge in war casualties, Red Cross warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Hospitals across Yemen are struggling to cope with a sharp rise in war casualties \u200bas intensified fighting along multiple front lines \u200cstrains its already fragile health system, the Red Cross said on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Front-line hospitals in areas including Marib, Taiz \u200band Yemen\u2019s Red Sea coast were seeing unprecedented \u200bnumbers of weapon-wounded patients, with some facilities \u2060admitting more than 700 casualties in a single \u200bweek, according to the humanitarian agency.<\/p>\n<p>More than <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/more-than-200000-people-displaced-since-fighting-yemen-began-says-un-agency-2026-10-07\/\">200,000 people \u200bhave been displaced<\/a> from their homes since fighting in the country began in recent weeks, sparked by renewed fighting between \u200bthe Iran-backed Houthi group and Saudi-backed government \u200bforces in Yemen, according to the United Nations International Organization \u200cfor \u2060Migration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrauma care staff are under enormous pressure,\u201d ICRC health coordinator Feras Abusamra said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Only a small proportion of Yemen\u2019s functioning health facilities \u200bare capable \u200bof providing \u2060comprehensive trauma care, he said, while hospitals face large numbers of wounded people amid \u200bshortages of surgical supplies, anaesthesia, oxygen \u200band medicines.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen\u2019s \u2060health services, battered by more than a decade of conflict, economic crisis, displacement and disease outbreaks, \u2060may \u200bhave limited capacity to absorb a \u200bnew surge in mass casualties if fighting intensifies further, the \u200bICRC warned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals across Yemen are struggling to cope with a sharp rise in war casualties \u200bas intensified fighting along multiple front lines \u200cstrains its already fragile health system, the Red Cross said on Wednesday. Front-line hospitals in areas including Marib, Taiz \u200band Yemen\u2019s Red Sea coast were seeing unprecedented \u200bnumbers of weapon-wounded patients, with some facilities \u2060admitting more than 700 casualties in a single \u200bweek, according to the humanitarian agency. More than 200,000 people \u200bhave been displaced from their homes since fighting in the country began in recent weeks, sparked by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}