Violence against health care must end
Violence against patients and health-care workers is one of the most crucial yet overlooked humanitarian issues today. The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement runs a global campaign aiming to improve security and delivery of impartial and efficient health care in armed conflict and other emergencies.
Ottawa workshop: Ensuring the safety of health facilities
How do you keep a hospital safe in a war zone? How do you ensure that patients are able to reach hospital, that medics can manage in a stressful environment and that there is a sufficient supply of medical material, water and electricity? These are some of the questions that experts will discuss in Ottawa this week in the context of the Health Care in Danger project.
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Mexico workshop: Ambulance and pre-hospital care in risk situations
The ICRC-led Health Care in Danger project is involved in the organization of a number of expert workshops over four years that will examine how to improve security and delivery of effective and impartial health care in armed conflict and other emergencies. The workshop in Mexico is the first to deal specifically with reducing the risks and overcoming the challenges faced by medical transport.
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Tehran workshop: responsibilities of National Societies to deliver safe health care in armed conflict
Threats to health care in armed conflicts and other emergencies are widespread and affect individuals, families and communities. As part of the ICRC-led Health Care in Danger project, several expert consultations have taken place since 2012. Tehran will host a workshop focusing on the role and responsibilities of National Red Cross Red Crescent Societies to deliver safe health care in armed conflict. This will be the second event of its nature following the one held in Oslo in December 2012.
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Cairo workshop: security of emergency health care in the field – protection begins from acceptance
Attacks on and obstruction of health-care facilities and personnel in armed conflicts and other emergencies is a massive humanitarian problem resulting in the denial of health care to millions of people.
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Oslo workshop: responsibilities of National Societies to deliver safe health care in armed violence
The ICRC-led Health Care in Danger project is involved in the organization of a number of expert workshops over four years that will examine how to improve security and delivery of effective and impartial health care in armed conflict and other emergencies.
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Cairo workshop: the challenge of protecting health care in armed violence
Violence against patients and health staff involved in health care is one of the most serious humanitarian issues, even though it has not yet received due attention.
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Health care in danger: first steps at London Symposium
Kidnapped medical workers, murdered doctors, ransacked clinics, vaccinations denied to tens of thousands of children – vivid examples of health care interrupted by armed violence that galvanized a London meeting of health experts and humanitarian professionals to consider urgent action.
