Baseline Report: Health, Nutrition, and WASH Activities in Yemen

In DFA-controlled areas, IMC supported 13 health facilities, including 5 in Sana'a, 3 in Ibb, and 5 in Taiz. The health facilities provided health services, including outpatient consultations and hospitalizations. During the reporting period, the IMC health team conducted 7 supportive supervisory visits to 5 supported health facilities in Sana'a, with a further 9 supportive monitoring visits conducted jointly with the GHO and DHO in Sana'a governorate. The team also conducted on-the-job training for health managers on emergency quality control monitoring in health facilities. In Ibb, the IMC team secured a pass authorization permit and conducted 8 supervisory visits to the supported health facilities in Al Qafr in September 2021. In Taiz, no field visit was conducted due to lack of pass authorization during September. The team also conducted coordination meetings with GHOs in Ibb and Taiz for the resumption of activities, obtaining team pass authorization, training health workers, selection and training of CHVs, and distribution of medication from the Sana'a warehouse to the health facilities in Alqafr district in Ibb. In IRG-controlled areas, IMC maintained support to 9 health facilities, including 1 SC where severe acute malnutrition cases with medical complications receive advanced care, alongside full primary health care and nutrition services. One mobile team continued to provide both nutrition and health services to IDP locations in Al Dhalee. A total of 13 supportive supervisory visits were conducted jointly with the GHO and DHO in Al Dhalee governorate. IMC also reported 5,311 suspected COVID-19 cases in IMC-supported health facilities, with 650 cases in the north and 4,661 cases in the south. IMC continued to support 23 nutrition sites with nutrition services in both DFA- and IRG-controlled areas. Activities in DFA-controlled areas resumed from mid-September when the suspension was lifted. Health workers treated 21 children 0-59 months with SAM with medical complications at De Jalal stabilization center in Al Dhale'e. IMC also provided OTP services to treat 269 children 6-59 months with SAM without medical complications, and TSFP services to 349 children 6-59 months and 385 pregnant and lactating women with MAM in both IRG- and DFA-controlled areas supported sites. IMC reached out to 10,477 pregnant and lactating women and caregivers with MIYCN-E, hygiene, and COVID-19 messaging at all supported health facilities and at the community levels through the CHVs and MSG in IRG areas and at the health facility level in DFA areas. IMC nutrition staff conducted regular supportive supervision visits and remote support in each health facility and mobile team. In the IRG area, IMC nutrition workers conducted regular weekly supervision visits in the De Jalal SC site and two supportive monitoring visits per health facility and MT in September 2021. IMC also continued to provide WASH services in DFA-controlled areas, including water trucking activities to 10 IDPs points and 3 health facilities in Sana'a. IMC completed the capacity building training of 40 CHVs on basic hygiene practices, and these CHVs initiated the community mobilization on hygiene promotion and awareness. IMC also completed desludging overflowing cesspits in the IDPs camps and surrounding host communities with 2000m3 of sludge removed and safely disposed of at the sewage treatment plants.