Medics in Tigray plead with Ethiopia for insulin airlift as supplies run out

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Medics in Tigray plead with Ethiopia for insulin airlift as supplies run out

Thousands of diabetics in region face ‘agonising death’ amid blockage on food, fuel and medicines in 14-month conflictDoctors at Tigray’s main hospital are urging the Ethiopian government to allow supplies of insulin to be airlifted into the region, warning that their stocks will run out within a week and that patients with type 1 diabetes are “at serious risk of death”.At the Ayder referral hospital in Mekelle, the largest in the region of 7 mi…