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Starvation Kills Scores Of Children In Tigray Hospitals– Survey

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By Ebi Kesiena

Nearly 200 young children have died of starvation in hospitals across Ethiopia’s Tigray region as malnutrition soars one year after a brutal conflict broke out.

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According to data collected by local doctors and researchers, the data from 14 hospitals offers a rare look at the scale of suffering in Tigray, which is grappling with a communications blackout and what the United Nations describes as a de facto aid blockade, meaning most essential medical supplies are no longer available.

Dr Hagos Godefay, Head of the Health Bureau in Tigray’s pre-war government explained that the toll is hardly comprehensive, given that most health facilities are not functional and Tigrayan health workers have only been able to reach roughly half of the region’s districts said.

Hagos described the findings, some of which were collected in partnership with Mekele University in Tigray’s capital, in an interview with AFP this week.

Much of Tigray is under the control of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which ran the region before the start of the conflict and is now considered a terrorist group by Addis Ababa.

“We have registered more than 186 deaths,” Hagos said, referring to fatalities caused by severe acute malnutrition in children younger than five. “We collected this information from hospitals only.

‘‘Some 29 percent of children are acutely malnourished, up from nine percent before the war,” Hagos said.

For severe acute malnutrition, the figure is 7.1 percent, up from 1.3 percent before the war, he said.

The data was collected by doctors in hospitals as well as through household surveys by doctors and university researchers in the region.

Only 14 percent of surveyed households report having enough access to food, down from 60 percent, Hagos said, adding that he fears what is unfolding in areas his teams have so far been unable to reach.

“For those areas that are not accessible, you can only imagine how many children are dying because of starvation. They are living in remote areas, there is no water… there is no food, no communication, no health facility.

“So I am telling you if we go to the remote areas it will double for sure. It’s catastrophic,’’ he said.

The survey findings Hagos described, cover the four months from late June, when the TPLF retook control of Mekele, to late October.

The 14 hospitals still functioning in the region are each recording between three and four deaths weekly due to ordinarily treatable illnesses like pneumonia and diarrhoea, Hagos said.

He added he was especially worried for tens of thousands of Tigrayans under “chronic follow-up”, including 55,000 HIV-positive patients and others battling conditions like cancer, hypertension and diabetes.

“If we are not able to manage them, if we are not able to provide them drugs… it’s catastrophic,” he said.

Abiy’s government has rejected claims it is blocking aid to Tigray, saying access has been restricted because of TPLF advances into neighbouring Amhara and Afar regions.

In an interview with CNN last week, Abiy’s spokeswoman Billene Seyoum said “the onus of responsibility on humanitarian access is on the TPLF”.

The United States, however, has said access to essential supplies and services was “being denied by the Ethiopian government” while denouncing “indications of a siege”.

And aid workers have sounded the alarm about government-imposed restrictions on medicines entering the region.

Hagos said that with health facilities damaged across Tigray, banking services suspended and supply stocks now empty, there is little health workers can do.

“The commitment from the health work force is really amazing. They just want to work even without having a salary, but they don’t have food to eat,” he said.

As foreign envoys scramble to end the conflict, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken due in neighbouring Kenya early Wednesday, the TPLF has said lifting the siege of Tigray is a condition for any ceasefire.

However, Hagos described the current situation as collective punishment.

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