Doctors say lives are lost in hospitals in Ethiopia's Tigray due to dwindling supplies, blame blockade


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  • Wednesday, 05 Jan 2022

FILE PHOTO: An infant who was injured in an air strike which killed dozens of people in the town of Tagogon in Ethiopia's Tigray region, is treated by a member of the medical staff at the Ayder Referral Hospital, in Mekelle, Ethiopia, June 23, 2021 in this handout picture obtained by REUTERS

NAIROBI (Reuters) - In the largest hospital in Ethiopia's Tigray region, a child wounded in an air strike bled to death after doctors ran out of gauze and intravenous fluids. A baby died because there were no fluids for dialysis.

Doctors at the Ayder Referral Hospital in the regional capital Mekelle, which is under the control of Tigrayan forces fighting the central government, told Reuters by phone the lack of supplies is largely the result of a months-long government aid blockade on the northern region.

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