Seven days of chaos in the ER: How this country's healthcare system is unraveling

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Renewed fighting in Ethiopia has pushed the country’s healthcare system toward collapse, with hospitals overwhelmed by war-related injuries. A surgeon described an emergency department flooded with trauma patients during an especially violent week in September.

Renewed fighting has pushed Ethiopia's healthcare system close to collapse: "The whole emergency (room) was flooded with war trauma patients," one surgeon says of a brutal week in September.