Violence against patients and health-care workers is one of the most crucial yet overlooked humanitarian issues of today. Read more about the ICRC's worldwide Health Care in Danger project
Gunmen pulled over this ambulance to kill a police commander as he was being taken to hospital.

Mexico: health-care workers on the front line

Over the past three years risks to health-care workers treating the wounded in the city of Ciudad Juarez have increased. Attacks on facilities and patients have become more common, hindering patients' access to health care.... read more

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What is your main reason for being concerned about attacks on health-care workers?

  • I or someone close to me has been affected by such attacks.
  • People suffer and die because they don't get health care.
  • It's against the law.
  • I am not concerned.

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