The Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen (SDRPY) is strengthening Yemen's healthcare sector through more than 40 development projects and initiatives. It also supports 30 medical facilities across 13 governorates, improving the quality of medical services and expanding access.
The projects include building, equipping, and operating hospitals and medical centers, as well as training healthcare personnel.
Foremost among them is the Prince Mohammed bin Salman Hospital in Aden, one of the country's leading medical institutions. The 270-bed hospital covers 20,000 square meters and has 14 specialized clinics, a heart center, and more than 2,000 pieces of medical equipment. Since SDRPY inaugurated it in January 2023, it has provided nearly five million medical services through October 2026. These include 31,000 surgeries in specialties such as general surgery, orthopedics, ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynecology, urology, and neurosurgery, as well as more than 11,000 cardiac surgeries and catheterization procedures.
In Al-Mahra Governorate, King Salman Medical and Educational City spans one million square meters. It includes a 110-bed hospital with outpatient clinics, emergency, laboratory, radiology, inpatient, and surgical departments, adult and pediatric intensive care units, and cardiac catheterization and cardiac care facilities.
The program also supports specialized centers, including a dialysis center in Al-Mahra that has delivered more than 100,000 medical services, among them over 22,000 dialysis sessions. It has rehabilitated the Mother and Child Center in Socotra and two other health centers, strengthening primary healthcare, reproductive health, and emergency response. It has supplied medical equipment to Kara General Hospital, 26 September Hospital, and Marib General Hospital in Marib Governorate, and it operates hospitals in Socotra and Shabwah.
To build human capacity, SDRPY has established and equipped faculties of medicine, pharmacy, and nursing at Taiz University, and supports health education at other Yemeni universities. It has also run training programs for healthcare staff, including the Arab Board program, the Yemeni Fellowship in Cardiology, and diplomas in respiratory and intensive care.
Projects under way include Hadhramout University Hospital, Al-Ain Rural Hospital in Taiz Governorate, Al-Dhale Rural Hospital, and Sabah Hospital in Abyan Governorate. SDRPY is also building a maternal and child health center and an obstetric emergency center in Ras Al-Ara, Lahj Governorate.
SDRPY has implemented 300 development projects and initiatives across 16 Yemeni governorates in eight sectors: education, health, energy, water, transport, agriculture and fisheries, development programs, and building the Yemeni government’s institutional capacity.