{
  "id": 8067546,
  "title": "Fighting in Yemen pushing health system to ‘collapse’, says WHO chief",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/fighting-in-yemen-pushing-health-system-to-collapse-says-who-chief",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-17T17:05:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Middle East Eye",
    "slug": "middle-east-eye",
    "url": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/fighting-yemen-pushing-health-system-collapse-says-who-chief"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Fighting in Yemen pushing health system to ‘collapse’, says WHO chief Escalating tensions in Yemen are “pushing an already fragile health system closer to collapse”, director general of the World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned on Thursday. “Nearly 20 million people need health assistance, while outbreaks of cholera, measles, polio and dengue, as well as malnutrition,…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}