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‘I saw an oncologist cry’: Tigray cancer patients sent home to die for lack of drugs

Doctors call for international help as Ethiopia civil war leaves terminally ill being treated with paracetamol in Mekelle hospital

Doctors caring for cancer patients at the main hospital in Tigray say they have only two chemotherapy drugs left in date and are treating terminally ill people with expired medication and paracetamol. Eighteen months of war have left the sickest in society suffering agonising deaths, they say.

For the first time in 11 months, doctors at the Ayder referral hospital in Mekelle took receipt of an oral chemotherapy drug earlier this month as part of an airlift by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Until then, they had had only one, Doxorubicin, still in date.

But, though there are some signs that the de-facto blockade on the northern Ethiopian region could be easing, oncologists say they are still in dire straits and using expired drugs to try to eke out supplies. The Ayder as a whole has just 16% of the drugs it needs, a doctor told the Guardian.

“Our pharmaceutical stock status is 16.3% at the moment … The situation is dire. We have finished almost everything,” he wrote in a text message, speaking on condition of anonymity.


https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... k-of-drugs

[ethiopian]

Sarcasm - can you tell us who brought this kind of Misery in Tigray ?

[Temt]

Sarcasm - can you tell us who brought this kind of Misery in Tigray ?

That is a good question that no Agame dares to answer for they know they brought the misery upon themselves. What an irresponsible disgraceful clan that they are!