Thursday, 19 October, 2017
Mabin / Health Center
Huda is keen to go to the health center - supported by Yemen Family Care Association and funded by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) - with her two children periodically for a long time in order to follow up on their health and address the undernourishment they suffer.
Huda, who lives with her family in the city of Mabin, says she has been a regular visitor of the center ever since she was four months pregnant with her second child. She was present almost once every month and was given full medical care by the health staff until her baby was born.
After giving birth, she continued to follow up on her condition and the condition of her infant continuously until her child’s sixth month. Despite the long distance and the difficult road, Huda takes to reach the health center she does not hesitate. The health center is located within the only hospital in the city of Mabin, which receives about 70 thousand people.
“I was in the hospital in the fourth month of my pregnancy, I visited the Doctor until I gave birth to my child Abdul Karim and then I followed up with the doctor for nutrition. Every month I would go to the hospital, thank God me and my children are fine now” says Huda.
The doctor, who was following the case of Huda, said: "We followed her condition from the fourth month of her pregnancy until the ninth month. Huda visited once a month but in the ninth month of her pregnancy she came twice to monitor the status of the fetus and thank God she had a natural delivery. We gave her nutrition from the first visit to date and this is her last visit as she is breastfeeding and her infant is now six month old. We are now monitoring the condition of her two years old first child and her six months old second child. We will be giving them supplements enough for a month so that they can take one every day and when they are finished with the first course they will come again for the second month’s supply.”
According to the doctor, Huda’s case applies to many women in the region who go to the center, either to follow up on their health or to address the problems of malnutrition of their children and themselves where there are free medical examinations as well as the distribution of appropriate medicines all free of charge.
Huda is keen to go to the health center - supported by Yemen Family Care Association and funded by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) - with her two children periodically for a long time in order to follow up on their health and address the undernourishment they suffer.
Huda, who lives with her family in the city of Mabin, says she has been a regular visitor of the center ever since she was four months pregnant with her second child. She was present almost once every month and was given full medical care by the health staff until her baby was born.
After giving birth, she continued to follow up on her condition and the condition of her infant continuously until her child’s sixth month. Despite the long distance and the difficult road, Huda takes to reach the health center she does not hesitate. The health center is located within the only hospital in the city of Mabin, which receives about 70 thousand people.
“I was in the hospital in the fourth month of my pregnancy, I visited the Doctor until I gave birth to my child Abdul Karim and then I followed up with the doctor for nutrition. Every month I would go to the hospital, thank God me and my children are fine now” says Huda.
The doctor, who was following the case of Huda, said: "We followed her condition from the fourth month of her pregnancy until the ninth month. Huda visited once a month but in the ninth month of her pregnancy she came twice to monitor the status of the fetus and thank God she had a natural delivery. We gave her nutrition from the first visit to date and this is her last visit as she is breastfeeding and her infant is now six month old. We are now monitoring the condition of her two years old first child and her six months old second child. We will be giving them supplements enough for a month so that they can take one every day and when they are finished with the first course they will come again for the second month’s supply.”
According to the doctor, Huda’s case applies to many women in the region who go to the center, either to follow up on their health or to address the problems of malnutrition of their children and themselves where there are free medical examinations as well as the distribution of appropriate medicines all free of charge.
