A mobile clinic reaches Hajjah's highland villages

Every Sunday before dawn, a four-wheel drive leaves the branch office in Hajjah city carrying a doctor, two nurses, a midwife and a cold box of vaccines. The road climbs for three hours on track that ambulances cannot use.

The team sets up under a canvas awning in the village square. By mid-morning the queue holds mothers with infants, farmers with untreated wounds and older residents who have not seen a clinician in over a year.

In the first half of 2026 the mobile clinic recorded more than 9,000 consultations across eleven highland villages, referring the most serious cases to the nearest hospital by branch ambulance.

The programme runs on volunteer time. Six of the eight team members are trained community volunteers from the villages themselves — a deliberate choice that keeps trust high and costs low.