On May 13th 2015, four members from the Southern Yemeni American Youth Forum (S.A.Y.F)–Khaled Al-Abbadi, Omran Alsalahi, Sakher Al-Shaibi, and Arafat Mohamed Shaibi–met with a group of representatives from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), including Andrew Pitt (Director, Office of Iraq and Arabian Peninsula Affairs Bureau for Middle East), in Wahignton D.C. They presented the relief efforts of HMPCA in the south and provided our contact information for the possibility of collaborating with committee to ensure that their prospective relief efforts will reach the southern Yemeni people.
Report written in English by:
Omran Alsalahi
M.D. candidate at Eastern Virginia Medical School
M.S. in Biomedical Sciences
Graduate Certificate in Global Medicine
oalsalahimd@gmail.com
Report written in English by:
Omran Alsalahi
M.D. candidate at Eastern Virginia Medical School
M.S. in Biomedical Sciences
Graduate Certificate in Global Medicine
oalsalahimd@gmail.com
في مايو 13 2015 ، التقى اربعة اعضاء من منتدى شباب الجنوب اليمني الامريكي - خالد العبادي، عمران الصلاحي، شاكر الشعيبي و عرفات محمد الشعيبي بمجموعة ممثلين عن المنظمة العالمية للتنمية في امريكا بصحبة السيد اندرو برت مدير مكتب العراق والجزيرة العربية لشؤن الشرق الاوسط في واشنطن دي سي. استعرض فيها الاعضاء المذكورون مجهود الإغاثة التي تقوم به اللجنة الطبية الشعبية العليا في عدن ، اليمن HMPCA في الجنوب. و قام اعضاء المنتدى بأعطاء معلوماتهم من اجل فرصة التواصل بين المنظمة العالمية واللجنة الطبية للتأكد من وصول جهود المساعدات الى ابناء الجنوب اليمني.
(Arabic translation by Omer Almatary)
Received: May 18, 2015
"Hi Omran,
Thank you for passing along this information, and for meeting with us last week. Your perspectives on the situation in the south were very helpful and we appreciate your efforts to raise awareness and address the situation.We will share this information with our humanitarian counterparts in USAID and any other relevant partners.Please stay in touch and best of luck."
Sent: May 15, 2015
"It was nice to meet with you and the USAID group on Wednesday.
I want to give you the contact information of Dr. AbdulNasser Alwali (#967 73 379 1544) who is the head of the Higher Medical Public Committee in Aden (HMPCA), a health network which was established (3/28/2015) to maintain the support chain to all active health facilities in the southern governorates–Aden, Lahj, Abyan, Al Dhale’e, Hadramaut, Shabwah and Al Maharah. Therefore he would be the best person to contact on the ground for needs assessment, logistics or any other related issue pertaining to that region.
Now, for about a month now, I have been contacting him on a regular basis (via WhatsApp) and informing aid agencies of their health situation and desperate need of medicine and supplies. Recently, we decided to open a page on Facebook as a central site where all health related updates and information from HMPCA are posted: www.facebook.com/hmpcaden
Lastly, I contacted Dr. Alwali yesterday for a solution on to how possibly deliver aid to Aden with current level of conflict there. He proposed three viable options at this time:
1.) Shipments to Aden's Refinery Port in Al Buraiqeh district; currently it is under the control of the Southern Resistance
2.) Through the logistics of the Qatari and Kuwaiti Red Crescent–but not through the Red Cross (Dr. Alwali seems to be disappointed in their efforts to provide assistance to any of the health facilities in Aden).
3.) Directly to Hadramaut by sea to its ports or by ground, as it borders Saudi Arabia and Oman; HMPCA will be to take over its logistics from there.
If you have any questions feel free to contact me at anytime and thank you and your team for meeting with us to discuss these important matters.
Omran Alsalahi
M.D. candidate at Eastern Virginia Medical School
M.S. in Biomedical Sciences
Graduate Certificate in Global Medicine
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