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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

WHO Chief: World's worst health crisis is in Ethiopia

ASSOCIATED PRESS

As much of the world’s attention is focused on the bloodshed in Ukraine, the head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday there's ”nowhere on earth where the health of millions of people is more under threat" than Ethiopia's Tigray region.

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the situation in Tigray from where he hails was “catastrophic,” saying the region had been “sealed off from the outside world” for about 500 days.

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