Insecurity Insight monitors attacks on health care in Ethiopia, and based on its data, the Ethiopia chapter of the 2024 Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) report Epidemic of Violence identified 59 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in Ethiopia in 2024. In these incidents, health facilities were damaged or destroyed on 26 occasions and 24 health workers were killed. The actual number of incidents and the severity of the problem are likely much greater, because of probable under-reporting.
– Ethiopia’s Amhara region faced escalating violence and a humanitarian crisis amid an extended state of emergency, leaving the health care system on the verge of collapse.
– Health worker killings in Amhara and the damaging or destruction of health care facilities in Oromia increased amid the escalating conflict.
– In Tigray region, blockades have led to critical shortages of oxygen, antibiotics and other life-saving resources.
Download the report data. Explore the data visually using our interactive map Attacked and Threatened: Health Care at Risk