YEMENI PAIN YELLING

IN AYEMENI town, hardship awaits displaced civilians.

''We have asked the coalition for help, we asked  international organizations but  nobody seems  to care anymore,''  said Maymouna Ali Ahmed, chief  nurse in charge of maternity care at the hospital.

AL-MOKHA : It took Sehan Ali Ibrahim one month to make the dangerous journey from her village near the frontline town of Al-Heiss to the relative safety of  Yemen's coast areas, often travelling by foot across battle lines

Now, she lives in a straw hut with three other families, including nine children, outside al-Mokha where many displaced Yemenis have built makeshift shelters and rely on aid provided by-

Humanitarian organizations  and anti-Houthi coalition forces.

''We walked,....We rode donkeys and cars.....We made it to al-Mokha in a month,'' said the elderly Ibrahim, who does not her exact age.

Yemen has been devastated by three years of conflict in which  President Abd-Rabu  mansour Hadi's government, backed by the Saudi-led Arab coalition, is fighting to drive the Houthis out of cities they seized in a series of operations since 2014.

''At least  40,000  have been displaced in recent weeks.'' Eshrak al-Soubai, Yemen's deputy health minister, told Reuters. '

'Most displaced people are coming from the areas  of fighting in al-Heiss district [some 90 kms away]....the situation is very critical,'' she said during a visit to al-Mokha hospital, the only medical facility in the coalition-controlled western coast.

Last month, the  United Nation  said at least  85,000 Yemenis had  left their homes in the area since fresh fighting erupted in December 2017.

Doctors and medical staff are struggling at  al-Mokha  hospital are struggling on daily basis to provide aid and treatment for victims of the war and diseases. [Agencies]