From dilapidated buildings, rainwater-leaking roofs over the heads of health workers, shattered windows, and broken water and electricity networks in Abu Mazen and Marah Al Aqhooz Units in Maqbanah District, Taiz Governorate, Tamdeen Youth Foundation #TYF, funded by Yemen Humanitarian Fund #YHF, has reactivated the two health units, with the rehabilitation and repair of infrastructure and bathrooms, the provision of medicines, medical supplies, and furniture.

It has also built two medical incinerators for the safe disposal of waste. Now, the two units are beginning a new phase in providing primary health care services to nearly 30,000 people, addressing malnutrition, immunizing children with fatal childhood diseases, and enabling women to access reproductive health services.

The residents and many IDPs who go to the two units and have access to free health services are grateful for the positive transformation that TYF has achieved through the "Health and Nutrition Emergency Interventions Project" in reducing their suffering and accessing appropriate health care.

Dr. Anwar Ali Hassan, Director of Abu Mazen Health Unit, says: "The situation was very bad. The infrastructure was dilapidated, the salaries of workers were suspended, and the population suffered greatly. However, the interventions of the "Health and Nutrition Emergency Project" supported the health unit at a time when it was most needed, and the support has contributed to the rehabilitation and expansion of infrastructure, the provision of medicines, material incentives to health workers and volunteers, and operational expenses until the health unit was reactivated and began a new phase."

Abu Mazen Health Unit receives 40 to 50 patients a day and provides them with various health services, including reproductive health, nutrition, vaccination, childcare, and medical consultations.

As for Marah Al Aqhooz Unit, its Director, Faisal Abdulrahman Faris, says: "The vital support provided to the Unit from the "Health and Nutrition Emergency Interventions Project" has improved our health services, expanded the Unit's work to remote areas by mobile health teams and health and nutrition volunteers, who contribute to detecting malnutrition cases and referring them to the health unit, educating the community about proper nutrition and its impact on the individual and community, and delivering various messages of awareness to the community.

In addition to these units, the project supports Rebat Ashaoub and Al Faqeed Al Jurzi Health Centres in Maqbana district, Taiz. These four vital facilities have been able to continue, and to provide better health care to more than 37,000 residents in the targeted areas.