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Colombia. An ICRC doctor takes care of a child.

The goal of ICRC’s Health Unit activities is to give people affected by conflict access to basic preventive and curative health care that meets universally recognized standards. To this end, it assists – or may temporarily replace – local health services. Read full overview

Highlights

Selected topics

  • Safeguarding health care

    The Health Care in Danger project aims to address the impact of illegal and sometimes violent acts that obstruct the delivery of health care, damage or destroy facilities and vehicles, and injure or kill health-care workers and patients, in armed conflicts and other situations of violence.


  • Azerbaijan: Tuberculosis unit for detainees in Baku Health in prisons

    The ICRC is concerned with the welfare of anyone detained in connection with armed conflicts or internal disturbances that require intervention by a neutral organization.


  • Lokichokio, Sudan, ICRC physical rehabilitation center Physical rehabilitation

    The ICRC supports victims of conflict and violence through its Physical Rehabilitation Programme (PRP) and its Special Fund for the Disabled (SFD).


Facts and Figures

In 2011, the ICRC supported

  • 377 health centres worldwide covering around 6.9 million people
  • 147 first aid posts which treated over 18,000 patients
  • 391 hospitals worldwide, which treated over 553'400 patients
  • 93 physical rehabilitation centres providing for 222'264 people      

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