ADEN, Yemen, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Scores of wounded pro-government fighters started on Wednesday to receive treatment at a new medical center in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, a medical official told Xinhua.
The local medical official of Aden's Health Department said on condition of anonymity that "a new medical center for prosthetics and physiotherapy began its activities in treating fighters of the government in Aden."
The new medical center will mainly provide necessary treatment for the pro-government fighters who were previously injured in the country's Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, he said.
The source said that "the United Arab Emirates (UAE) supported the establishment of the new medical center and provided it with modern equipment."
"Instead of transferring the injured fighters to receive treatment abroad the center will be tasked in reducing their suffering and it already began treatment of many cases here," he added.
Civilians injured by explosions of landmines laid by Houthis in the country's western coast areas will be dispatched to the new center to receive treatment, according to the official.
Yemen has been locked in a civil war since the Houthi rebels seized all northern provinces, including the capital Sanaa, in 2014.
Saudi Arabia has been leading an Arab military coalition that intervened in Yemen's conflict in 2015 to support the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi after Houthi rebels forced him into exile.
The prolonged military conflict has aggravated the suffering of Yemenis and deepened the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
