Doctors caring for critically ill patients in a war-torn region say they are having to re-use medical equipment as aid provided by NGOs has only lasted two days.
According to Dr Kibrom Gebreselassie, executive director of the Ayder Hospital, all the medicines supplied to the hospital under the peace agreement ran out in just two days in in Tigray, Ethiopia.
“We try to improvise, but it's so substandard that patients are dying. We use expired drugs. We used foods that are expired. At a certain point, we're cutting cloth and boiling them to use them as gauze to try to stop the blood,” Dr Belay* said over the phone to the Mirror from the embattled region.
