Ethiopia’s Tigray runs out of medical supplies amid health crisis: WHO
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Ethiopia’s Tigray region has run out of medical supplies such as vaccines, antibiotics and insulin, World Health Organization officials said on Friday, warning that many deaths were probably going unrecorded from preventable and treatable diseases. The conflict that has pitted Ethiopia’s army against forces from the country’s northern region of Tigray has killed […]
In New York’s ‘Little Odessa,’ Ukrainians see Russians as neighbours, not enemies
New York, USReuters In just one day, Inga Sokolnikova filled two rooms in her beauty salon in New York City’s Brighton Beach with donated diapers, clothes and medical supplies for her native country of Ukraine. Donations poured in not only from Ukrainian and Ukrainian American residents of this diverse waterfront neighbourhood in south Brooklyn, but […]
Fears of medical shortages and disease in Ukraine after Russian invasion
London, UKReuters Ukraine is running low on critical medical supplies and has had to halt urgent efforts to curb a polio outbreak since Russia invaded the country, public health experts say. Medical needs are already acute, with the World Health Organization warning on Sunday that oxygen supplies were running out. A boy receives polio vaccine […]
World Vision “deeply concerned” at situation facing those impacted by the crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
World Vision is “deeply concerned” for those caught up in the conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, according to a senior representative who is among those responding to the crisis. Fighting in the region began two months ago after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed – winner of last year’s Nobel Peace Prize – ordered Ethiopian […]