Violence in northern Ethiopia pushing health system towards collapse: WHO
Summary
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that renewed fighting and drone strikes in northern Ethiopia are pushing the country’s fragile health system closer to collapse. He said violence has killed civilians and disrupted access to medical care and supplies, while the WHO and other UN agencies are working to deliver additional aid.Key Facts
- Tedros said fighting between Tigrayan rebels and Ethiopia’s government has strained medical facilities.
- Sources involved in a rescue operation told Reuters that at least 15 people, including several children, died in Friday’s drone strikes on the Jaari 2 displacement camp in Amhara region.
- Tedros confirmed that children were among those reported killed at the camp but did not give an overall death toll or identify who carried out the attacks.
- Several people were killed while seeking food in Rama, in the Tigray region, according to Tedros.
- Tedros said hospitals face shortages of health workers, medicines and equipment, and that ambulance services are severely limited.
- He warned that insecurity is obstructing deliveries of life-saving medical supplies and limiting access to emergency, maternal and child health care and disease treatment.
- The WHO and other UN agencies are working to deliver additional supplies, Tedros said.
- Renewed fighting has nearly shattered the November 2022 peace agreement between the Tigrayan rebels and the Ethiopian government.
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