Minister of Health meets with heads of Salvador Allende and Raul Pellegrin Chilean Foundations
Sana'a (Saba) - Minister of Health and Environment Dr. Ali Shiban met today with the international and national coordinator of the Humanitarian Defense Network - President of the Dr. Salvador Allende Foundation for Politics, Health and Integration in Latin America Dr. Pablo Allende, and the President of the Raul Pellegrin Chilean Foundation - Member of the Walls and Anti-Imperialist Resistance Gathering - Member of the Health Resistance Movement Dr. Roberto Bermudez.
The meeting touched on the direct and indirect targeting of the health sector and its infrastructure in Yemen by the US-Saudi-Emirati aggression over the course of ten years.
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