Ethiopia s health minister and TPLF spokesman did not respond to requests for comment. The TPLF denied looting health facilities and blamed the government for shortages of humanitarian supplies.
The United Nations first sounded the alarm about lack of access to Tigray in December 2020, when government forces took control of Mekelle after battling rebellious forces loyal to the TPLF for three weeks.
Access for trucks has been ebbed and flown since, but declined significantly after government forces withdrew from most of the region at the end of June, according to reports by U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA.
Abiy s government has rejected accusations by the UN and other aid organisations that it is preventing humanitarian supplies from reaching Tigray.
The government has been limiting access to the media since July. Some aid agencies have been barred, and most communications to the region are down.
Two international aid agencies reached by Reuters didn't respond to requests for comment on the Tuesday presentation, which was issued on behalf of all of the Ayder hospital staff.
A senior doctor at Ayder told Reuters that about 80 to 90 percent of Tigray's hospitals and clinics were not functioning. More than 90 percent of the region's 5.5 million people need humanitarian assistance and 400,000 are living in famine-like conditions, according to the United Nations.
Some supplies reached Tigray's main cities during the first eight months of the conflict, when the region was under government control. Since the government pulled back in late June, little food and almost no medical supplies have arrived, doctors said.
They blamed U.N. officials and U.S. officials for what they described as a de facto government blockade. The United Nations estimates that at least 100 trucks of aid must enter Tigray each day to keep up with needs. OCHA said last week that less than 12 percent of that has arrived since July.
There are three main routes into Tigray, but bridges along two of them were blown up as the Ethiopian military withdrew, according to OCHA reports. Convoys attempting to use the remaining land route through Afar have had long security checks and bureaucratic delays that can last weeks. OCHA reports show that authorities don't allow fuel and medication to get through.