In March, UNFPA with the financial support of the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) established a new emergency obstetric unit at the Bani Al Harith Health Centre in Amant Al Asimah to address the urgent maternal health needs of women of childbearing age in the area, allowing them to deliver safely with skilled care and treatment. More than 17,000 women in the district will benefit from the reproductive health services offered at this new space.

The Bani Al Harith District in Amanat Al-Asimah has an estimated population of 518,313, hosting more than 120,000 displaced people with 336,904 people in need of health assistance, nearly half of them women and girls.  

Women and girls are among the most vulnerable in Yemen including in Bani Al Harith District, where primary healthcare services are extremely limited, and reproductive healthcare almost absent. In turn, placing pregnant women in grave risk due to the long travel to a health facility and lack of skilled personnel and equipment in health facilities.  

With the support of QFFD, this new unit will help to reduce overcrowding at the health centre, provide, normal and assisted delivery services, family planning and new born care, and serve as a lifeline to thousands of women in the district and surrounding areas in need of reproductive health care.

From 2022 to date, nearly 14,000 women have been reached with reproductive health services with the financial assistance of QFFD at Bani Al Harith Health Centre.