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“I’ve been in many maternity wards, and they are usually a place of joy. Malnutrition puts both women in childbirth and newborn babies at serious risk. “The baby stayed in the hospital for a couple of days as I did not have enough breast milk to feed her”, Hafsa said. When she delivered her daughter months later, the girl weighed only 1.8 kg. I was given medicines to supplement my diet, and I was advised to eat meat, vegetables and fruits.”īut good nutrition was beyond reach due to her family’s low income. I could not stand straight,” 33-year-old Hafsa told UNFPA during Dr. “When I came to receive antenatal care at Al Shaab Hospital, I was very weak and pale.

Currently 1.2 million pregnant and breastfeeding women are acutely malnourished, and these numbers could double if humanitarian funding does not materialise. Pregnant and breastfeeding women are especially vulnerable during food insecurity. Only 20 per cent of functioning health facilities are providing maternal and child health services. The pandemic has only aggravated things, with roughly 15 per cent of the health system shifted to deal with COVID-19 cases. Currently only half of all health facilities are functioning. The country’s long-running conflict has depleted the health system. Naijanarratives, village people hand and zazuĬhildbirth can be harrowing in even the best of times but the cascade of humanitarian crises in Yemen have made the journey to motherhood more dangerous than ever.