GENEVA, June 25 (Reuters) - WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus accused authorities in Ethiopia on Friday of blocking ambulances from reaching scores of victims of an air strike this week, a rare case of speaking out in his official capacity about the conflict in his homeland.
Tedros, who is an ethnic Tigrayan and former Ethiopian Cabinet minister, referred in his opening remarks at a WHO briefing to the air strike this week which hit a crowded market in his native region. The federal government has been waging war against fighters loyal to the former regional authorities since last year.
"Ambulances were blocked for more than a day from attending the scene and evacuating the wounded for medical care," Tedros said.
"WHO is currently providing life-saving trauma and surgical supplies to a hospital that is treating survivors who were able to reach care," Tedros said. "Attacks on civilians anywhere are completely unacceptable and so is denying them access to immediate care, because we lose lives."
Tedros has occasionally tweeted about the conflict in Tigray, but has rarely mentioned it while speaking publicly in his official capacity as head of the WHO.
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Re: WHO's Tedros says victims of Ethiopia air strike [Togoga Massacre] denied access to care (Reuters)
Kichamo Komalo - Who cares about the mouthpiece of TPLF leeches and communist China? Let him come down to the sane market place as his woyane militias if he has balls and we will bury him along with the other cursed woyane rats. KIFU!