‘Where Is Humanity?’ Ask the Helpless Doctors of Ethiopia’s Embattled Tigray Region

October 17, 2022

(NPR) – One of the greatest casualties of the brutal civil war in Ethiopia has been its health care. With the country’s northern Tigray region under blockade and cut off from most communications, a disastrous humanitarian crisis has been unfolding in a war that has become the world’s unseen war. Dr. Fasika Amdeslasie, a surgeon at Tigray’s Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, says, “Our patients are not getting basic medicines like antibiotics, IV fluids, [and] oxygen.” Without these kinds of supplies, he’s watched patients die. (Read More)