Arab coalition and WHO set up air bridge to evacuate sick Yemenis

Children recuperate from dengue fever at a hospital in Hodeidah, Yemen January 21, 2020. Picture taken January 21, 2020. (Reuters)

• Patients will be transferred to Egypt and Jordan to receive treatment
• The operation is called “Flights of Mercy”

RIYADH: The Arab coalition and World Health Organization are to establish an air bridge to evacuate sick and injured Yemenis.

Patients will be transferred to Egypt and Jordan to receive treatment, coalition spokesman Col Turki Al-Maliki said on Monday. 

The operation named “Flights of Mercy” is “in line with the coalition’s humanitarian efforts to support the brotherly people of Yemen, to ease the struggle of those sick and patients with incurable diseases,” he said.