“In Mekelle, a doctor reached by Reuters said the hospital where he works was “totally non-functional” due to lack of electricity, fuel for generators, oxygen and medical supplies. Medics were unable to perform emergency surgery or effectively treat patients for problems such as childbirth complications and diabetes.
“Patients are dying outside and inside the hospital,” he wrote in a message, saying that he was aware of three women who died after delivering babies at home and an infant on a ventilator who died because there was no oxygen.”