Doctors forced to reuse surgical equipment as medical supplies run out in country

Doctors treating critically ill patients in a war-torn region say they have to reuse medical equipment because aid from NGOs only lasted two days.

According to Dr. Kibrom Gebreselassie, Executive Director of Ayder Hospital, all medicines provided to the hospital under the peace agreement ran out in just two days in Tigray, Ethiopia.< /p>

“We try to improvise, but it's so poor that patients die. like gauze to try and stop the blood,” Dr Belay* told the Mirror by phone from the besieged area.

"Aid is such a small amount, less than half of the needed items have arrived, it hardly makes a difference and our salaries still haven't come either," he continues.

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People enter Ayder's referral hospital in Mekele, the capital of the Tigray region (

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Last month, a long-awaited peace accord was signed that somewhat eased the fighting between the Ethiopian government (with the support of Eritrean soldiers) and forces in its northern Tigray region.

But the fallout from the two-year conflict remains.

The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the ruling authority in the region that signed the peace deal with Addis Ababa, accuses Eritrean forces of widespread massacres.

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But Eritrea did not participate in the peace talks and the agreement makes no mention of the conditions for the withdrawal of their forces.

Genet Tsegay, 12, who was injured in her commune of Togoga during a deadly airstrike on a market, is comforted by her mother at the referral hospital in Ayder (

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