By Magdalena Mis LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Health services in Yemen are on the brink of collapse amid critical shortages of life-saving medicines, oxygen and fuel, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. "Over the past four weeks, national disease surveillance reports show a doubling in the number of cases of bloody diarrhea in children below the age of five, as well as an increase in the number of cases of measles and suspected malaria," WHO Yemen representative Ahmed Shadoul said in a statement. "High rates of malnutrition among women and children below the age of five have also been reported." Major hospitals will soon be unable to provide emergency services, perform operations and provide intensive care to patients because of lack of medicines and fuel, WHO said, citing the Yemeni Ministry of Public Health and Population.
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