GENEVA (HRNW) — The U.N. health agency says it has been granted access to send medical supplies to Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region for the first time in six months, but fuel shortages are hampering distribution.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, an Ethiopian who considers the region home, tweeted late Monday that the aid shipment that has been allowed in amounted to a “small portion” of what is needed, and said his agency “calls again for unfettered access to provide humanitarian aid.”
The supplies include essential medical equipment, personal protective equipment, antibiotics, medicines for malaria and diabetes, treatment for severe acute malnutrition and medicines and supplies for reproductive health, WHO said.
An airlift of the supplies through the U.N.’s World Food Program began Friday, and they are part of 33.5 metric tons of planned shipments, the agency said.
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