The Ministry of Health, which is run by Houthi leader Taha Al-Mutawakkil and is located close to Houthi leader Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, reportedly works to conceal the truth of his involvement in the process of smuggling medicines and adulterated and outdated medical supplies. This is according to the most recent developments in the crime that kidnapped 18 children with cancer about two weeks ago in Sana’a.
Al-Mutawakkil fired Muhammad Abdullah Al-Ghlyi, the leader of the pharmaceutical organisation, in order to stop the leakage of his duty.
This angered a large number of the staff of the commission who believe that their article was innocent, and that he was carrying out the orders of the Minister of Health, who was and still supervises every small and large work and tasks of the Pharmaceutical Authority.
Additionally, according to Sana’a-based sources, senior Houthi leaders in the Ministry of Health were smuggling medicines into Yemen through the use of several smugglers in order to enter the country and then sell them to international organisations for use as relief and humanitarian aid within the framework of the UN’s aid programme.
The Houthi Health Minister Taha Al-Mutawakkil and his aides in the ministry and the Medicines Authority receive a sizable portion of the profits from the selling of illicit pharmaceuticals, she further explained.
Additionally, those sources disclosed that Yusef Yaqoub, the owner of one of the linked pharmacies, and the individual who is participating in the smuggling process in the Ministry of Health are in accord with the Houthi organisation.
It is significant that the Houthi militia admitted, three weeks after the catastrophe, that only “10” cancer-related deaths had occurred as a result of the youngsters receiving smuggled and outdated medications.
While the tragedy was met with wide popular discontent, amid charges of Houthi supervisor of involvement, in conjunction with information that confirmed that the number of deaths reached more than 18 children out of about 50 injections of corrupt drug.
This tragedy added to a long history of persecution in the Houthi-controlled regions of Yemen, especially because the militias stole a market for illicit and corrupt pharmaceuticals run by their leadership from these regions and returned with cash and benefits through drug smuggling and trading activities.
The massacre at the cancer drugs store in Sanaa. “The Houthi Minister” is evading
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