Ministry of Health implores Ethiopians and friends of Ethiopia to help rebuild hospitals

ADDIS ABABA, DECEMBER 15, 2021 — Ethiopia's Ministry of Health (MoH) called on all Ethiopians and friends of Ethiopia to help it rebuild and restore thousands of damaged health facilities in Amhara and Afar regions.

The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) terrorists, in just five months, have destroyed more than three thousand health facilities during their occupation of parts of Afar and Amhara regions. In Afar, they destroyed 60 health centers while they destroyed 40 hospitals, 453 health stations, 1,850 health posts, 4 blood banks and 1 oxygen factory in Amhara region. They also looted and damaged medical equipment and other supplies.

According to our information so far, said the Ministry of Health, more than 2,700 health facilities are out of service and the number is expected to be higher than this figure when areas currently inaccessible to the government are included.

As a result of the extensive damage and raiding done to the health facilities, access to health care is partially or completely disrupted for so many of our citizens, read the statement from MoH.

Moreover, hospitals and health centers operating near the affected areas are required to function beyond their capacity, stretched to their limits in terms of infrastructures well as human resources.

"Immediate and expedited restoration of services in the damaged and looted facilities is therefore critical to avert the negative consequences secondary of lack of access to care and treatment", said the MoH.

The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with stakeholders and partners, has established a comprehensive conflict related Emergency Response System (incident management system) to assist in the multi-sectoral response to this unprecedented emergency and is currently implementing a multi-pronged strategy to address this challenge.

Of these strategies, the first and currently in action is to rebuild and restore function in the looted and destroyed health facilities by twinning them with various government institutions.

Accordingly, the Ministry implored Ethiopians, friends of Ethiopia, humanitarian organizations, health professionals, investors etc to help rebuild and restore these lost health facilities before anymore lives are taken.

For support follow this link to the Ministry's website https://www.moh.gov.et/site/donations.

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