Group reports health facilities looted in Ethiopia’s Tigray

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KAMPALA, Uganda, 15 March, 2021, (TON): The philanthropic gathering Doctors without Borders said Monday that wellbeing offices in Ethiopia's best area of Tigray have been “looted, vandalized and destroyed in a deliberate and widespread attack.”

The gathering said almost 70% of 106 wellbeing offices studied from mid of December to early March had been plundered and over 30% had been harmed. It said just 13% were working typically.

The findings extend worry for the prosperity of Tigray's 6 million individuals. Battling continues as government powers and their partners including fighters apparently from adjoining Eritrea chase down the area's criminal chiefs.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed faces pressure to end the war. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last week that some of the atrocities in Tigray amount to “ethnic cleansing.”

As indicated by Doctors without Borders, wellbeing offices in many regions “appear to have been deliberately vandalized to render them nonfunctional.” One-fifth of the health facilities were occupied by soldiers and few health facilities now have ambulances after most were seized by armed groups.

 

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