Dubai: The country's minister of information,Moammar Al-Eryani, the Houthi militia, which is backed by Iran, is to blame for the deaths of more than 18 children who received outdated chemotherapy in Sanaa, Yemen.

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The children were given doses that were kept in the Houthis warehouses months after they had been contaminated, according to the minister. The children were receiving leukaemia treatment at a hospital in the city that was under the militia's siege.

Al-Eryani confirmed that the Houthis had given the hospitals in Yemen the chemotherapy injections that the World Health Organization (WHO) and other organisations had donated to Yemen in a statement to the Yemeni News Agency (SABA).

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2- Reports confirm that Houthi militia distributed expired drugs, which obtained as free assistance from World Health Organization & other donors, &sold part of it, &stored other quantities for long periods, before it tampered with the expiry date, and distributed it to hospitals

— معمر الإرياني (@ERYANIM) October 14, 2022

According to the minister, the Houthis sold some of the doses to people in dire need and kept other doses in storage for a long time before delivering them to the hospitals.

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Al-Eryani warned against "[the] Houthi militia's] impeding access to medicines freely provided by [international organisations] to treat incurable diseases, including cancer, and selling them on the [black] market to make huge profits, and allowing for smuggled drugs companies owned by Houthi, which exacerbated patient suffering," in a tweet on his official account.