‘We’ve finished our tears’: Tigray’s main hospital exhausts food
More than 90 percent of Tigray’s people need food aid, despite a truce called to the 18-month-long civil war in Ethiopia.
22 Apr 2022
The main hospital in Ethiopia’s war-ravaged region of Tigray has sent home 240 patients after food supplies ran out last week, officials have said.
The decision by Ayder Referral Hospital in Tigray’s capital Mekelle underscores how little food aid is reaching the region despite the government’s declaration in March of a unilateral truce to allow aid deliveries.
One hospital official, who asked not to be named, said about 360 patients remained who were able to buy their own food. New patients without food or money were being turned away, he said.