Health and WASH Services Reaching Most Vulnerable Yemenis Despite Difficult Context

Results

• 72 hospitals and 2,000 regional and local health centers were provided with supplies, medicine, medical equipment, WASH supplies, rehabilitation of WASH facilities and fuel.
• 27 million Yemenis received health and nutrition services - such as general medical and trauma care; maternal, reproductive and child health care; health services for communicable and non-communicable diseases; and mental health care.
• 40 percent of recipients were children under the age of five,
• 9 percent were internally displaced persons, and 52 percent were women.
• 221 nutritional surveillance sites were funded to provide the earliest possible response to widespread malnutrition.

Key achievement - Water and sanitation:

• As of Oct. 2021, 2.720 Million and 2.470 Million people were provided with access to improved water sources and sanitation services in cholera affected areas (rural and urban). In addition, 5.718 Million people have received consumable hygiene kits.

YEMEN-2021-August-WASH in Al Hudaydah

WASH Rehabilitation in Institutions:

a. WASH rehabilitation in Primary Health Care Facilities (PHCF) and Schools: With WB's fund, UNICEF supported PHCF and schools throughout Yemen with minor rehabilitation or upgrade of existing water and sanitation systems. As of October 2021, the rehabilitation works has been implemented on 496 PHCFs and 118 schools.

b. WASH Rehabilitation in Governorate, District and Inter-District Hospitals (GHs, DHs and IDHs): with WB's fund, WHO has completed the implementation of WASH rehabilitation on 70 Hospitals with total cost of US$ 3.7 Million.

Water Trucking to HFs: As an emergency intervention, WHO continued the provision of safe water to targeted health facilities in which more than 1100 Million liters of chlorinated water (US$3.4 million) were delivered to 42 GH, DH and IDH & 5.5 Million beneficiaries reached during the period from August 2017 to June 2021.

Water Quality Monitoring: WHO reported the frequency of water quality samples for each health facility is twice a month. A total of 2070 and 1944 samples for pH & FRC respectively have been tested during the period from Nov. 2020 to July 2021. Based on the results, change source of water and adding chlorination at point of use have been ensured as mitigation measures.

Special Support for Mothers and Children

• 1.3 million pregnant women received antenatal care, and Health personnel trained by the EHNP attended more than 500,000 births.
• 10 million or more children were improved by the project,
• 8 million children are vaccinated against preventable diseases

Training

• 37,000 healthcare workers were trained. Training and financial support were directed to community-based health service providers, including midwives, volunteers, and community health workers.

Safer, More Reliable Water Supplies

• 2.6 million people gained readier access to improved sources of fresh water
• 1.6 million people were treated for cholera
• 2 million were vaccinated against cholera, through oral doses

Improved Sanitation

• The project focused its sanitation initiatives on hospitals but also helped support municipalities with their public water and sanitation systems throughout Yemen.
• 2.3 million people have benefited directly from these sanitation services improvements