News Center_ Yemen’s health infrastructure has severely deteriorated due to more than a decade of ongoing political conflict. Hospitals and medical centers face acute shortages of supplies, medicines, and preventive and therapeutic resources.this fragile reality has allowed disease and epidemics to spread widely across multiple regions, worsening the population’s suffering and deepening the humanitarian crisis.

The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a report on Wednesday, November 26, stating that the cholera outbreak in Yemen since the beginning of 2025 has resulted in 237 deaths, while infections have risen to over 87,000 cases. This development occurs amid the ongoing conflict, which exhausts the country and exacerbates humanitarian and health crises, particularly malnutrition, which threatens children’s lives. WHO emphasized that the disaster is rapidly worsening due to severe funding shortages, hindering response efforts and increasing the severity of the health and humanitarian situation.

The organization reported that from the start of the year through the end of October, Yemen recorded 87,566 new cases of cholera and acute watery diarrhea, along with 237 deaths related to the disease. According to the latest report, Yemen ranks third globally in cholera-related deaths, after South Sudan and Afghanistan, highlighting the critical health situation in the country.

WHO also noted that in 2024, the cholera outbreak in Yemen caused 879 deaths out of more than 260,000 reported cases, reflecting the magnitude of the ongoing health crisis facing the country.