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Samia<\/strong>, nine months pregnant, is one of the four million people displaced by the ongoing conflict in Yemen. She left her home in Al-Hali district (Al-Hudaida governorate) five years ago to seek a safe haven in Al-Basateen (Aden), at the home of relatives. When the economic situation worsened and her husband became unemployed, she settled in the Al-Ribat IDP site<\/strong> in Tuban district (Lahj governorate), where more than 3,000 people live in tents. INTERSOS is the only organisation providing basic medical care at the site.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “I was about to die before I even gave birth to my son because the hospital was full.<\/strong> They gave me an ultrasound and said I could go home. It was the INTERSOS staff, who had previously provided me with prenatal care on their mobile clinic<\/strong>, telling me it was vaginal bleeding and that it was serious, especially in the ninth month of pregnancy.”<\/em> Samia said. “After returning home I remember I started feeling sick. I was taken directly to the INTERSOS mobile clinic, a kind of van equipped with a cot and medical equipment, where I gave birth safely<\/strong>. I was also cared for after the birth, and I continue to see Ola regularly”.<\/em> Ola is one of the precious INTERSOS volunteers<\/strong> involved in community awareness activities<\/strong>, who follow, accompany and inform many mothers on the importance and good practices of breastfeeding and infant feeding.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What is considered unacceptable in Italy is the norm in Yemen. Every two hours a woman dies in childbirth<\/strong> because of a health system that has collapsed. With a mobil clinic, INTERSOS is the only organisation providing basic medical care at the Al-Ribat IDP site (Lahj governorate), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,678,680,703,629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-and-nutrition","category-news","category-protection","category-yemen-2","category-yemen"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThanks to the support of the European Union<\/a><\/strong>, we offer emergency integrated health, nutrition and protection services<\/a> to conflict-affected and displaced people\u00a0in Hajja (Abs and Ku\u2019aydina districts), Aden (districts of Al-Buraiqa and Dar Sa\u2019ad) and Lahj (Al-Ribat IDP camp in Tuban district).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"