SANAA, Oct. 20 -- In a public hospital in downtown Yemen's rebel-held capital Sanaa, doctors are on emergency state over a sudden flare-up of deadly diphtheria.
The intensified care unit is full of sick children and women infected with the disease, a bacterial infection spread from person to person through coughing or sneezing.
The disease causes a thick covering in the back of the throat and the most serious cases can kill a child within hours if not treated immediately.
Mohammed Saghir Yahya, a 35-year-old father of five, was weeping his tears just few hours after he buried his two children killed by diphtheria.
"I have rushed my family from the village and arrived here in the hospital two days ago, my youngest child died while we were traveling on the road to the hospital, my second child died on Saturday in the hospital, my wife and my other three children are now in the intensive care unit," Yahya, told Xinhua.
Yahya's sons, Ahmed, 3 years old, and Abdullah, 10 years old, were confirmed dead from diphtheria by the officials of al-Sabeen hospital.
His wife and the other three children were still in critical condition at the hospital, according to doctor Yassir al-Sultan, the deputy head of al-Sabeen hospital's intensive care unit for treating diphtheria.
The father said he sold his small mud-bricks house in Safan village in Haraz district to secure a taxi for transporting his family to the hospital.
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