Hundreds of people leave a Tigray hospital after the food supply runs out - Reuters
Another nurse at Ayder Referral Hospital told Reuters that due to prescription shortages, they were down to their last 10% of meds, even though some HIV tablets had come last month and staff were treating other infections with whatever antibiotics they could find.
Boakyewaa Lawrencia 
According to Reuters, Ethiopia's beleaguered Tigray region's largest hospital had to send 240 patients home last week after running out of food, knowing that many of them would die.
Babies with meningitis and tuberculosis, as well as a 14-year-old kid with HIV, were among those taken away, according to nurses at Ayder Referral Hospital.
"The families stated that instead of dying here, we should go home and die there," Tedros Fissehaye, a pediatric ward nurse, told Reuters.
"We have finished our tears for months now," he said, adding that he and other staff members were deeply saddened but had no more tears to cry.
Another nurse at Ayder Referral Hospital told Reuters that due to prescription shortages, they were down to their last 10% of meds, even though tablets had come last month and staff were treating other infections with whatever antibiotics they could find.
The Ethiopian government has not responded to the story by Reuters.
As a result of the war that began in November 2020, the UN estimates that 90 percent of Tigray's population is in desperate need of food and humanitarian aid.
According to Reuters, none of the clinicians at Ayder Referral Hospital have been paid since July, and the employees had been relying on the hospital for meals.
