Houthi restrictions on child vaccination campaigns threaten spread of epidemic diseases

DUBAI: Yemen’s Minister of Information Muammar Al-Eryani warned against the Houthis’ continued restrictions on child immunization programs in the capital of Sanaa and other areas under the militia’s control.

Al-Eryani said the restrictions imposed by the Houthis on child vaccination campaigns could lead to the emergence and spread of a number of epidemic diseases that Yemen had previously been declared free from. 

He said that Houthi practices have led to the emergence of hundreds of cases of polio after Yemen was declared free from the disease in 2009.