Are the Government Doctors well paid even after having so much workload?

While doctors globally face issues of low pay, the situation for government doctors in Yemen has moved beyond that into a full-blown humanitarian crisis. To ask if we are "well paid" is almost a cruel irony. For many of us, the reality is we are not paid at all. For years now, the salaries for government employees, including doctors, have been completely stopped. We continue to show up to our posts, driven by our oath and a sense of duty to our people, but we do so without any income. We are running on fumes, both emotionally and financially. This creates an impossible daily reality. We work in hospitals that are shells of their former selves, lacking the most basic supplies—gloves, anesthesia, clean water, reliable electricity. We are forced to ask patients' families to go out and buy every single thing needed for a surgery or treatment. And this is where the second, soul-crushing burden comes in. When a patient has a poor outcome because we lacked the necessary equipment or medicine, the anger and grief from the family is not directed at the collapsed health system. It is directed at us, the doctors. We are the face of a system we have no control over. We are blamed for the lack of medicine we cannot procure. We are accused of negligence when the real negligence is a system that has abandoned its people and its healthcare workers. We face threats and absorb the rage of a suffering population, all while working for free. This isn't just burnout; it's a moral injury. We are trapped between our professional ethics that compel us to serve, and a reality that punishes us for doing so. The fact that any public hospitals are still functioning in Yemen is a testament to the sheer, stubborn resilience of its healthcare staff, but it is a resilience that is being stretched to its absolute breaking point.