Chch nurse safe, says relief group

Press, 28 November 1984, Page 9

Chch nurse safe, says relief group

A Christchurch nurse working with the Save the children Fund in Ethiopia was safe, said the fund’s New Zealand president, Mrs Bettv Pearson, yesterday. Miss Olwyn Gillespie joined the fund’s team at Korem in the north of Ethopia earlier this month. Last week there were fears for her safety. Mrs Pearson said that reports saying the the town had been captured by the Tigre People’s Lißeration Front were incorrect However, a telex from the fund’s London base said that security problems in the area had increased, and one of the fund’s trucks carrying fuel to the area had been attacked and burnt The breakdown of security in Tigre province meant that relief supplies were not getting through, she said. “Although the neighbouring province of Wollo, where Korem is, has received the bulk of food distributed since the extent of the Ethiopian emergency

t was revealed in recent t weeks, the infant mortality in Korem is still climbing and now stands at 70 day.” Miss Gillespie, one of the » fund’s doctors and a nurse i would soon move to a new t camp to be opened at Besf tima, she said.