Success story
Ras Al-Ara Rural Hospital (District Hospital - DH), on the Western Coast, is one of the most prominent health facilities that HUMAN ACCESS has given high attention through the project of “Enhancing Access to Sustainable and Efficient Health Services” funded by Yemeni Humanitarian Fund (YHF) that provides MSP to provide primary health care (PHC), integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI), and an expanded program of Immunization (EPI), as well as referral of emergency and critical cases to the nearest higher level of health care. The activities implemented in complementarity with the “Reproductive Health Project” supported by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the “Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) Project” supported by the World Food Program (WFP), where the project activities aim to provide various health services to the most vulnerable populations in the region, including IDPs and refugees.
Mrs. Hamam Nasr Abdullah, 27 years old, was born in Ethiopia. Her husband brought her one afternoon in June 2021 to Ras Al-Ara Hospital in the Mudaraba and Ras Al-Ara district in Lahj Governorate. Her swollen belly and her large apparent size suggested that she was in her last month of pregnancy. But the accompanying pains were severe, suggesting that she had started the labors of her first childbirth. I was quickly admitted to the maternity ward, and the medical team on hand began its work.
The husband was anxious waiting in front of the delivery room, and with a broken Arabic accent he was raising his hands to the sky, praying that God would protect his wife and make these difficult stages pass in peace. A woman was sitting on the waiting chair, looking at him and merciful to his condition, and she wanted to calm him and his anxiety, saying to him:
- Do not worry, son, your wife is in safe hands with a trained, qualified and distinguished medical team in all the region.
- He smiled at her, as if his smile was telling her that he knew she was in good hands, but the first birth brought a lot of pain.
In a moment of terrible silence that prevailed in the place, the door of the delivery room opened and one of the midwives came out with a sign of good tidings on her face, informing the husband that he had a healthy new baby.
He asked her about his wife:
- How is Hamam?
- She hurts a little, but she is fine!
His face rejoiced, his tongue curled and the words stuck inside him. He burst into tears of joy, and began to speak with an incomprehensible stammer, then fell down in prostration and thankful to God.
Like Mrs. Hamam and her husband, there are many who have benefited in one way or another from the services of this project in its targeted health facilities (HFs) and through its mobile medical team (MMT) in both Lahj and Taiz. Sensing their satisfaction, their tongues thank and appreciate those in charge of this project, which touched their urgent needs.
The beneficiaries ask the donors, hopefully, to continue their support and achieve sustainability of services in the standing of the continuing crises and the deterioration of the situation in Yemen.
