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… to be amputated," he said. A crumbling health care system Years of war and economic turmoil have corroded Sudan's health care system. In Khartoum and larger …
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Myanmar: The year 2024 in pictures
… challenges, including limited access to health care, water, food, communications, … needs such as water, food, sanitation and health care. We also provided medical supplies …
South Sudan management frameworks and social assessment
… Sudan will expand its primary and secondary health-care services (including mental health and … Government of South Sudan Healthcare in Danger International Committee of the Red Cross …
South Africa: 15th Annual Regional Seminar on International Humanitarian Law - Summary Report
… Minister Landers noted the importance of the Health Care in Danger (HCiD) Project, which was piloted in …
She inspires: Breaking the bias this International Women's Day
… range from emergency aid like food and health services to helping communities build … in English, but for humanitarian health-care it transcends the barriers of language and … She thought we were putting the baby in danger with the CPR; clearly, she wasn’t aware …
Namibia: Prison chiefs from around the world seeking better conditions for detainees
… facilities where hygiene is inadequate, health care unavailable and safety impossible to … safety, healthful food, sanitation, medical care, access to justice and humane treatment. …
Syria: In societies shattered by conflict, civilians pay a high price for years
… children here have less food, clean water, health care and education than international standards … infrastructure – water, electricity and health care – are stretching the population’s …
Afghanistan: ICRC team reaches remote communities affected by earthquake in Kunar
… essentials such as food, water and basic health care. Many are traumatized and fear going back to their ruined homes because of the danger that aftershocks will cause buildings to …
South Asia experts to discuss protection of cultural property during armed conflict
… ICRC is doing to put an end to attacks on health workers and patients, go to Health Care in Danger website Follow the ICRC on Facebook and …
Ukraine: Online video from Mariupol is filled with false claims
31-05-2022 Kyiv (ICRC) – A video filmed in our Mariupol office now circulating in some media is filled with false claims and baseless assumptions about the work of the International Committee of the …
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