Thread by @JacobTBurns

#BREAKING

MSF is witnessing a catastrophe unfold in our #COVID19 treatment centre in #Aden, #Yemen

Apr 30 - May 17 we admitted 173 patients, at least 68 of whom died.

What's worse is we know we are seeing only a small proportion of those people sick and dying in the city.

Government burial statistics in #Aden show that daily burials have risen to 80 from a pre-outbreak normal of 10.

Another indication of how widespread the outbreak has become is the number of healthcare professionals we are treating in our centre.

Many members of our own staff in #Aden are also sick.

“People are coming to us too late to save, and we know that many more people are not coming at all: they are just dying at home. It’s a heartbreaking situation.” — Caroline Seguin, @MSF’s Operations Manager for #Yemen

While the mortality rate in the #Covid_19 centre in #Aden is equivalent to those in ICUs in Europe and the US, those we see dying are much younger: between 40 and 60.

Aden was already struggling with a collapsed healthcare system before the outbreak. Authorities are overwhelmed

.@MSF are running the only #Covid_19 treatment centre in Aden, indeed in the whole south of #Yemen.

Teams are working round the clock but we cannot do it alone: the UN and donor states urgently need to do more to support the #Covid_19 response in #Yemen

Read our full statement here: msf.org/aden%E2%80%99s…