Nearly three years of war have left Yemen a shell of its former self.
And the United Nations has run out of patience.
It has criticised both the Saudi Arabian-led coalition backing the government, largely supported by the international community, and the Houthi rebels, backed in part by Iran.
The United Nations says both sides are guilty of causing civilian deaths, including children, and singles out the Saudi side for blocking the delivery of critical supplies like medicine.
A week earlier, UN officials accused the coalition of stopping vessels entering the Red Sea port of Hodeidah and targeting it with air strikes.
UN aid chief Stephen O'Brien has appealed for support for a UN Verification and Inspection Mechanism (UNVIM) to inspect commercial shipments arriving at rebel-held ports.
"Yet the government of Yemen and the coalition, at times, bypass UNVIM by unilaterally denying, or excessively delaying, entry to vessels carrying essential cargo. Member states must do more, determinedly, to champion this mechanism. It is simply wrong to insist these cargoes go to Aden, not Hodeidah."
Around 80 per cent of Yemen's food imports arrive at Hodeidah.
The World Food Program's David Beasley acknowledges the sober reality of what losing the port would mean.
"Food should not be a weapon of war, food should be a weapon of peace. Ninety-five per cent of all the food that we need to feed the innocent people comes through this port. If this port is bombed and completely made useless, literally, hundreds of thousands of children will die, and millions of people will die along with it."
Saudi Arabia and Yemen have denied the claims.
Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United Nations, Abdallah Yahya al Mouallimi, says they are working on coming to a peaceful solution.
"The level of casualties is unacceptably high. Any single life lost in this conflict is a life too many. So we would certainly agree with that, and our effort to continuously try to improve our procedures and our conduct of the conflict is ongoing and will not stop. That also does not contradict the need and the fact that we are engaged in efforts to try to foster a political solution."
More than half of Yemenis are now deemed "food insecure," and 7 million people do not know where their next meal will come from.
Desperate people continue to trickle into the country's hospitals and medical centres.
An outbreak of cholera has killed at least 2,000 people and infected 500,000 in what is the Arab world's poorest nation.
Dr Abdullah Ai Zuhayri has seen firsthand the impact of the ongoing conflict.
He says the situation is critical and getting worse.
"We have started to see so many more cases of malnutrition. Now, it is not only the poor bringing their children here. We are seeing cases of severely malnourished children from middle-class families, too."
The United Nations says a child under five years old dies every 10 minutes in Yemen from preventable causes.
