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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Lizzy Davies

Patients dying as conflict prevents supplies reaching Tigray hospitals

A mother holds a malnourished baby in a hospital
A mother with her malnourished baby in Ayder hospital in Mekelle, Tigray’s capital. The UN says 2m people in the region are suffering from ‘an extreme lack of food’. Photograph: Leul Kinfu/Unicef

People in Tigray are dying due to a lack of oxygen and medicines, a doctor at the region’s largest hospital has said, as medics struggle to care for the sick amid frequent electricity blackouts and fuel shortages.

As the 16-month conflict between Tigrayan forces and Ethiopian government forces drags on, the isolated northern region of 5.5 million people continues to suffer under what the UN has called a de facto blockade.

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