Yemenis smoke cigarettes and hubble bubble too much and for long hours while chewing qat. Imagine that one of the patients we received at the intensive care unit at Al-Thawara Hospital used to smoke 100 cigarettes every day before he ran a serious heart disease. Many Yemenis also do the same. Another reason is that Yemenis do not care about doing exercise. This causes different heart problems.
Stress also causes health problems including some serious heart diseases.
Congenital heart defects are also very common in Yemen. The necessary equipment for doing heart surgery are not available here. At Al-Thawra public hospital, we do simple heart operations. We regularly invite experts from Switzerland, Germany and Jordan to Al-Thawra hospital to perform some complicated heart surgery. This is the first step we make towards opening a national heart center, sponsored by the Japanese government, within Al-Thawra Hospital.