Photo: Screenshot/DWAddis Abeba – Ethiopian Red Cross Tigray branch office has said it is unable to deliver its services to drought and conflict-stricken people in the Tigray due to scarcity of medicine and challenges related to logistics. The Ethiopian Red Cross on its part, told Addis Standard that it has lost communications with its Tigray branch offices. Berhanu Mekonen, the director of Ethiopian Red Cross Tigray branch, said that although the branch’s medical service has been declining since the past two years, it has deteriorated at the moment. Mesfin Dereje, humanitarian diplomacy communication director at the Ethiopian Red Cross, said that the Ethiopian Red Cross couldn’t provide basic medicines to Mekelle due to lack of access. Red cross has sent two rounds of food grains and materials for humanitarian support to Tigray region worth 17 million birr collaborating with the international red cross community, he added.

Source: Ethiopian News December 23, 2022 21:20 UTC