Terrorist TPLF Loots Dessie Referral Hospital

Addis Ababa, December 8, 2021 (Walta) – The terrorist TPLF group has completely looted Dessie Referral Hospital of the Amhara region during its invasion of the town.

It is to be recalled that the coalition of security forces led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has liberated the historical city of Dessie and the industrial town of Kombolecha from the terrorist TPLF group.

During its occupation of these towns, the group had looted public and private properties including public service-providing institutions as well as destroyed that it was unable to transport.

One of these social service-providing facilities looted and destroyed by the terrorist TPLF is the Dessie Referral Hospital, according to the Interim Administrator of the Hospital, Getachew Metaferia.

The Interim Administrator said the group has looted several medical equipment and drugs of the hospital including large medical types of machinery.

Particularly, the recently inaugurated oxygen manufacturing facility, installed with a cost of more than 22 million Birr, has been completely looted by the terrorist group, he added.

They have also destroyed hospital beds bought recently, Getachew stated.

Similarly, the terrorist TPLF has looted and destroyed several manufacturing industries during its invasion of areas in the Amhara and Afar regions, according to the Ministry of Industry.

According to information obtained so far, 32 large industries in Kombolcha and Dessie towns, as well as 4 industries in the Afar region, have been looted and destroyed by the terrorist TPLF, the Ministry.

The TPLF terrorist group had also committed the most heinous massacres on civilians during its occupation of areas in Amhara and Afar regions of Ethiopia, witnesses disclosed.