Improved security in Ethiopia’s Tigray region since a November ceasefire has allowed aid to reach some previously inaccessible areas, but humanitarian needs remain urgent, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said.
At the Yechilla Primary Hospital, located in a part of central Tigray that saw intense fighting, the walls are riddled with bullet holes and supplies are short.s not enough, because seeing patients who come to be treated die in your hands is very painful,” Dr Erdey Asefa, the hospitals spokesperson in Ethiopia, told Reuters the needs across Tigray and other parts of the country were so great that aid workers did not have the resources to respond everywhere.
Out of 250 ambulances that the Ethiopian Red Cross Society operated in Tigray before the conflict, only 82 remained and many of those were not active, ICRC said. Ethiopian health minister Lia Tadesse, national security advisor to the prime minister Redwan Hussein, and Getachew Reda, a spokesperson for the Tigray forces, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the humanitarian situation.
“We have faced so many challenges. One of them is our driver who was shot while transporting a pregnant woman,” Berhanu Mekonnen Berhe, head of the Tigray regional branch of the Ethiopian Red Cross Society, said in the ICRC news release.Register or sign in now.
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