Dr. Abdulrahman Al Eryani

Dr. Abdulrahman Al Eryani is a general practitioner and emergency physician at Al Thawra Modern General Hospital in Sana'a — one of Yemen's largest public hospitals, which has continued to operate in an extremely resource-depleted environment during Yemen's ongoing conflict. With 16 years of frontline medical practice, Dr. Al Eryani is among the dedicated Yemeni physicians who have remained in the country to provide care under some of the most challenging conditions facing any healthcare system in the world.

Yemen's healthcare crisis is among the most severe globally, with functional hospital capacity severely diminished by infrastructure damage, medication shortages, displacement of health workers, and economic collapse. Dr. Al Eryani's practice at Al Thawra focuses on high-impact primary and emergency medicine: managing the epidemic communicable diseases that have flourished in Yemen's disrupted environment, including cholera — which has affected millions of Yemenis — dengue fever, and malaria.

Malnutrition is another dominant clinical reality of Dr. Al Eryani's work. Yemen faces one of the world's worst hunger crises, and he applies WHO and UNICEF management protocols for severe acute malnutrition in children and adults who present to Al Thawra with life-threatening nutritional deficiencies.

His emergency medicine work encompasses trauma management, surgical wound care, obstetric emergencies, and resuscitation in a setting with limited intensive care resources. His clinical judgment and adaptive management under extreme resource constraints represent a form of expertise that is both practically valuable and humanistically significant.

Dr. Al Eryani obtained his MBBCh from Sana'a University Faculty of Medicine and completed his General Practice internship and early post-graduate training at Al Thawra Modern General Hospital. He holds the DTMH (Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene), reflecting his specialized competence in the infectious and tropical diseases that dominate Yemen's disease burden. He holds a Diploma in Primary Health Care (DPHC) from the Yemeni Medical Board and has completed WHO and MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières) training modules in cholera case management, malnutrition management, and trauma care in humanitarian settings.

Dr. Al Eryani's clinical practice is shaped by Yemen's epidemiological reality. He manages acute watery diarrhea and cholera with oral and intravenous rehydration, antibiotic treatment where indicated, and isolation protocols. He diagnoses and treats malaria (both Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax) using rapid diagnostic tests and artemisinin-based combination therapy. He assesses and manages severe acute malnutrition using MUAC, weight-for-height measurements, and therapeutic feeding protocols including ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF). He manages respiratory infections, urinary infections, and skin and soft tissue infections with available antibiotics. In emergency medicine, he performs wound care and suturing, fracture splinting, intravenous access and fluid resuscitation, and basic airway management.

Dr. Al Eryani has contributed clinical data to WHO Yemen country office surveillance reports on cholera, dengue, and malnutrition. His frontline observations of Yemen's epidemic disease burden have contributed to humanitarian health research published through international organizations. He participates in Yemen Ministry of Public Health and Population disease surveillance and reporting systems, contributing to the epidemiological data that guide international humanitarian health response.

Al Thawra Hospital serves the Yemeni domestic population under extreme resource constraints. Dr. Al Eryani consults in Arabic. Given Yemen's limited telecommunications infrastructure, regular video consultations are not reliably available, but he engages with medical humanitarian organizations and diaspora physicians remotely when connectivity permits. He is a point of contact for international health organizations providing support to Yemen's health system.

Dr. Al Eryani has received recognition from the Yemeni Medical Association for his continued service during the conflict. He has been acknowledged by international humanitarian health organizations including WHO and UNICEF for his contributions to epidemic response and malnutrition management in Sana'a. His dedication to medicine under Yemen's extraordinary circumstances is recognized as an act of professional commitment of the highest order.