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Al-Aslami’s work is supported by some international organisations, including ADRA, the Seventh-Day Adventist Church’s aid arm, but overall she says help is drying up as the war goes on.
Since September 2016, when a cash crisis forced Hadi’s government to halt payments, hundreds of thousands of Yemeni public servants like al-Aslami have gone unpaid, or received their salaries only occasionally. Al-Aslami says she was last paid, by the Houthi rebel government in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, three months ago.
Nevertheless, she opens the clinic at dawn and is the last to leave, when she is not travelling around the area looking for patients who can’t reach her.
“It’s my duty, and my mission,” she said. “If I go home, I’m still at the clinic in my heart and my mind.”
- Credits Alessio Romenzi/TNH
- Themes Conflict Health
- Regions Middle East and North Africa Yemen