Saudi Arabia launches landmine clearance and prosthetic limbs projects in Yemen

limbs in Yemen
limbs in Yemen

The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) on Sunday revealed it provided prosthetic limbs for 1,839 civilians mutilated during the war in Yemen in the past three years, at a total cost of $2.3 million.

Prior to April 2017, a medical center backed by KSRelief andbased in the city of Marib had fitted prosthetic limbs for 305 patients, andtrained 5 Yemeni teams on prosthetic affixation techniques and patientrehabilitation, at a cost of $546,848.

By February 2018, 306 more patients had been treated, and 6further teams were trained, costing $440,000, and by December 2018, 612 morelimbs had been fitted with over 600 old ones replaced across Marib and Aden,coming in at $1.25 million.

The center has gone to great lengths to ensure bothconvenience and efficiency for patients on waiting lists for prosthetics,including maintaining regular lines of communication with people still awaitingtreatment. The training program, established to teach Yemeni medics how toattach prosthetics themselves, is vital for the sustainable future of thecenter.

Amputations performed on civilians have been a prominentfeature of the vicious war in Yemen, with men and many women and childrenrequiring assistance from KSRelief after suffering life-changing injuries frombombs and landmines.

The Saudi Project for Landmine Clearance (MASAM) in Yemen cleared more than 43,000 mines in the war-ravaged country as of Feb. 15, according to the figures released by KSRelief. About a million mines have been planted by the Iranian-backed Houthi militias in Yemen over the past three years, claiming the lives of more than 1,000 civilians.

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