Following the recent offensive on Hodeidah by forces loyal to President Hadi and supported by the Saudi and Emirati-led international coalition, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has opened a 20-bed surgical field hospital in Mocha, Yemen, 180 kilometers (111.8 miles) south of Hodeidah, to respond to increased medical needs.
More than 70 MSF staff are working in the newly-established surgical field hospital. The facility, whose capacity can be extended to receive more patients, provides emergency medical care to people coming from the Hodeidah and Taiz frontlines. Among the patients are war-wounded and pregnant women with complicated deliveries that require urgent surgery.
