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Displaced nurses provide vital health care to others displaced in Ethiopia’s Tigray (UNHCR)

Displaced nurses provide vital health care to others displaced in Ethiopia’s Tigray (UNHCR)

As UNHCR and other aid agencies scale up the humanitarian response in conflict-torn Tigray, local communities and the displaced are pulling together to support one another.

Brukti*a displaced Ethiopian nurse, screens a child for malnutrition at a clinic in Mekelle, Ethiopia.
© UNHCR/Elisabeth Arnsdorf Haslund

In a small, one-room stone cottage in Mekelle, the regional capital of Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, Brukti* is measuring a young girl’s upper arm to screen her for malnutrition. If not for the ‘antibiotics’ and ‘emergency drugs’ signs hanging from a cabinet on the wall, it would be hard to tell that this is a health clinic.

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