While waiting for a sponsor to pay for congenital heart defect surgery, gangrene caused by the untreated ailment ate away at 16-year-old Zamzam Hizam’s foot. She is among millions of Yemenis struggling to obtain lifesaving medical treatment due to a seven-year-old war that has destroyed Yemen’s health system, hindered the entry of foreign surgeons, restricted travel abroad by locals and spread poverty. Mohammed al-Kebsi, head of the cardiac centre at Al-Thawra Hospital in the capital Sanaa, said the department has nearly 3,000 children awaiting complex heart surgery. “(Foreign) medical teams u…

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