Almotamar.net, Saba - Vice President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi affirmed that Yemen has made considerable step in fighting cancer. In a speech he delivered in the opening ceremony of the Gulf 4th Conference on Fighting Cancer started its meetings in Sana’a on Monday, Hadi said the president issued directives for establishing centers for cancer in five governorates. He hoped Yemen to expand in fighting cancer.
He said that talking on the cancer is talking on a complicated problem many countries suffer from it. However, some countries could over encounter this disease via limiting its causes and protecting against it.
"I am convinced that the conference will take into consideration all factors and current changes in addition to making use of expertise of brotherly and friendly countries in fighting cancer and setting up suitable solutions for fighting the disease," said Hadi. He highlighted the Yemeni National Establishment for Combating Cancer.
Meanwhile, Minister of Public Health and Population Abdul-Karim Rase'a said the problem of cancer is health issue occupying national concern plagues people of different ages and bothers efforts of the government in limiting the disease.
He hoped that the conference would contribute in showing sufferings of the patients and reducing them. He said that the National Center for Tumors opened in 2004 with the bed capacity of 52 receives 120 cases a day receiving radiotherapy. He noted importance of expansion in opening more centers for fighting cancer.
Meanwhile, the Honorary President of Gulf Union for Fighting Cancer Abdurrahman al-Odhi said the conference aims at enhancing scientific cooperation fields between cancer physicians in the GCC countries.
He highlighted cooperation between the GCC countries in health field including Yemen which hosted early this month the conference of GCC health ministers. He asserted on integrating efforts for fighting this disease.
A donation door for cancer institutions and centers in Yemen has been opened. The vice president announced donation of YR 12 million. The announced donation sum has reached more than YR 200 million from state and public donators included Gulf and Arab institutions.
The three-day conference is participated by 450 physicians and specialists from Gulf and Yemeni cancer centers and institutions besides Canadian doctors.
The United Arab Emirates acknowledged on Tuesday that two of its pilots were killed when their military aggression plane crashed over Jawf province, a military official said
The official added that the aggressive crashed plane was an apache that was
Artillery of the army and popular shelled a gathering of Saudi-paid mercenaries in al-Moqadra area in Serwah district of Marib province, a military official said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, dozens of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed and others injured in Wadi al-Theek in the district, the official added.
The army and popular forces carried out on Monday unique military operations in Taiz province.
A military official said that a number of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed at the hands of the army and popular forces in al-Jazami Hill in al-Kadaha area in al-Ma'afer district.
A Saudi aggression fighter jet targeted a citizen's car driving in Fara area of Kutaf district in Saada province overnight, killing the driver and injuring his friend, a security official said on Monday.
The army artillery and popular committees launched a fierce attack on Saudi-paid mercenaries' sites in Jawf province, a military official said on Monday.
The attack destroyed a military vehicle belonging to the mercenaries and killed all on board in Sabran area in khab and shaaf district.
Scores of Saudi enemy soldiers were killed and injured on Sunday when the army and popular forces repelled a Saudi military attempt to sneak into Shurfah site in the border province of Najran, a military official said.
The operation was accomplished successfully against the Saudi
The army and popular committees have killed a total of 18 Saudi-paid mercenaries in sniper operations over the past hours in the central province of Marib, a military official said on Sunday.
Ten mercenaries were killed in Nehm district and eight others were killed in Serwah district, said the official.
Saudi aggression warplanes have launched more than 49 airstrikes over the past hours on several residential areas across Yemen, a security official said on Sunday.
The airstrikes targeted the areas of Malahiz and Husama in Dhahir district, and areas Thuban, Masahif and Sdad in Bakim district of northern Saada province.
VP inaugurates Gulf 4th conference on cancer 
