Health Care in Danger Newsletter: January-June 2015
… How can we protect hospitals, health care workers and patients from attacks? The June Newsletter of the Health Care in Danger project brings you interesting examples …
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Health Care in Danger Report: The untold suffering
… others, five babies and three mothers. A health-care centre occupied by security forces for … that must be addressed. The Health Care in Danger (HCiD) project is a Red Cross and Red …
Health Care in Danger newsletter: July – November 2015
… What do ethics have to do with protecting health care? How can we make sure doctors and nurses … too? This edition of the Health Care in Danger newsletter allows you to reflect on the …
Health Care in Danger exhibition at SHAPE, NATO
… ambulance at SHAPE (c) SHAPE Photographic "Health Care in Danger - an issue for our times" hosted at …
Five takeaways from the Health Care in Danger commissions
… Health Care in Danger newsletter - March 2016 In December 2015, Ambassador Seleka chaired two Health Care in Danger (HCiD) commissions at …
Pakistan: Health Care in Danger study undertaken in Karachi
… Karachi partners APPNA Institute of Public Health, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and … and their effects, and is part of Health Care in Danger (HCiD) project that aims to better …
Health Care in Danger: Violent Incidents Affecting the Delivery of Health Care, January 2012 to December 2013
… of assaults or threats against patients, health-care personnel, ambulances or medical … of the iceberg of all the violence affecting health care worldwide, the ICRC report allows …
Health Care in Danger: Violent Incidents Affecting the Delivery of Health Care, January 2012 to December 2014
… based on 2,398 incidents of violence against health care. The data on those incidents was … types of acts and threats of violence against health care in armed conflicts and other …
Health Care in Danger: We must learn from each other
… Editorial - Health Care in Danger Newsletter, December 2014 And the … number and the seriousness of attacks against health-care workers and facilities and medical …
Health Care in Danger: New tool for State armed forces
… of military operations on the delivery of health care. Data gathered by the ICRC since 2012 in … Violent Incidents Affecting the Deliver y of Health Care , show that weapon bearers are …
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