Yemen’s health minister Qasim Buhaibeh warned that some areas could lose all health services if funding continues to fall. Data through June 2026 showed 19.3 million people need health assistance, while the response had received just 17% of required funds.
Buhaibeh said a lack of resources has forced health-facility closures and caused shortages of medicines, supplies and fuel. He said the share of facilities operating at full capacity may have fallen below 50%; the World Health Organization had cited 60%. Emergency, maternal and child health, vaccination, nutrition, dialysis and cancer services are particularly at risk, he added.
Buhaibeh cited 134,550 people displaced from June through September 22, mostly in Taiz, Lahij and Aden. IOM separately counted nearly 130,000 people, or 30,000 households, displaced across seven governorates since fighting escalated in early September. He warned that cholera, measles and polio outbreaks are occurring alongside displacement, malnutrition and low vaccination coverage. More than 27,000 confirmed measles cases were recorded in 2025, and around half of children under five have chronic malnutrition. Buhaibeh said health-data reporting from Houthi-controlled areas has been suspended for nearly a year, leaving the national picture incomplete.
