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Communication Campaign in Lebanon

*Health Care in Danger  (HCiD) is an ICRC-led project of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. It started in 2012 and is still running. The project is driven by a serious concern related to violence against patients and healthcare workers. The HCiD project aims to improve the efficiency and delivery of effective and impartial health care in situations of armed conflict and other emergencies.

All sick and wounded people must receive, to the fullest extent practicable, life-saving care, without any discrimination and regardless of their background
All sick and wounded people must receive, to the fullest extent practicable, life-saving care, without any discrimination and regardless of their background

Ultimately, to see changing behavior, when we talk about preventing targeting health care, be it intentional and non-intentional, we need to dig deeper than mass communication, we need to go beyond dissemination of key messages, beyond simply raising awareness, by having a more targeted approach, by really studying our target audience

Basma Tabaja Deputy Head of Delegation, Beirut

In Lebanon, the ICRC monitors and registers HCiD-related incidents and tackles them with the relevant authorities bilaterally and confidentially. The ICRC also regularly include HCiD-related issues in the dialogue with communities and other actors of influence across the country. In the dialogue with the Lebanese government, armed and security forces as well as other weapon bearers, the ICRC continuously repeats that they must take all possible measures to make sure that healthcare workers are not attacked or impeded to perform their duties and that all people in need of medical assistance receive it timely and without any kind of discrimination whether in situations of armed conflict and other emergencies or in times of peace.