# Doctors in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are recycling surgical gloves and using salt to disinfect wounds as essential medical supplies run out. This is according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. AFP reports hospitals elsewhere in the country’s war-battered north were being forced to shut and are unable to keep patients alive without medicines, electricity, or water. Thousands of people have died in the 14 months of fighting in Ethiopia and millions are suffering from a critical shortage of food and medical essentials in conflict-afflicted regions.