Mekelle hospitals struggling to care for wounded: ICRC
Red Cross warns of influx of trauma patients and says hospitals are running dangerously low on supplies as UN calls for humanitarian access to Tigray to be granted soon.
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29 Nov 2020
Hospitals and health facilities in the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region are struggling to care for people wounded in a weeks-long conflict as medical supplies run dangerously low, an aid group has warned.
In a rare report from inside the northern city of Mekelle on Sunday, a day after Ethiopia declared victory in its operation against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said some 80 percent of patients at Ayder Referral Hospital have trauma injuries.