Yemen: Cholera

(asked on 7th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government is taking to tackle the cholera outbreak in Yemen.


Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 13th November 2017

The current cholera outbreak in Yemen is the largest ever recorded in a single year (as of 4 November 2017 over 900,000 suspected cases and over 2,190 deaths have been recorded since the start of the outbreak in April earlier this year). Fewer than half of Yemen’s health facilities are functioning, and 15.7 million people lack access to water, sanitation and hygiene services.

The UK announced a renewed push to treat and contain the outbreak of cholera in August, providing £8 million for UNICEF and the International Organization for Migration’s cholera response. This support, part of our of £155 million of funding to Yemen in the Financial Year 2017/18, includes providing medical supplies to half a million people, 300,000 people with access to safe water, and rehabilitated medical centres to benefit 250,000 people.

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