Yemen was already in a desperately fragile state before simmering, months-long violence in the country boiled over in March. The IRC is working urgently to find ways to get essential drugs and supplies to hospitals.
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The International Rescue Committee has called the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Yemen a catastrophe. Nearly 1,100 people have been killed in recent fighting and more than 150,000 have fled their homes — the newly displaced joining hundreds of thousands of people uprooted by previous waves of conflict.