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Reuters
Reuters
Health
By Emma Farge

Ethiopia's Tigray runs out of medical supplies amid health crisis: WHO

FILE PHOTO: Medicine and relief supplies from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Ethiopian Red Cross (ERCS) are seen loaded onto trucks at the ICRC logistics centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia November 19, 2020. Picture taken November 19, 2020. International Committee of the Red Cross/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

Ethiopia's Tigray region has run out of medical supplies such as vaccines, antibiotics and insulin, World Health Organization officials said on Friday, warning that many deaths were probably going unrecorded from preventable and treatable diseases.

The conflict that has pitted Ethiopia's army against forces from the country's northern region of Tigray has killed thousands, displaced millions and left thousands on the brink of famine. Peace talks are going on in South Africa.

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