A road map for protecting health-care services
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Five takeaways from the Health Care in Danger commissions
… Health Care in Danger newsletter - March 2016 In December …
Are we doing enough to safeguard health-care services?
… Health Care in Danger newsletter - March 2016 On 15 February, …
Diary: Bearing witness to the crisis in Syria
… In late February 2016, our president Peter … The most basic things – food, water, shelter, health care – nothing can be taken for granted …
Somalia health news: Nearly 500,000 people received medical help in 2015
… An overview of the ICRC's large health programmes in Somalia and examples of the help we were … our work in health has expanded from direct care of those injured in battle to include war …
Pakistan: Health Care in Danger study undertaken in Karachi
… ICRC together with its 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 …
Restoring Family Links code of conduct on data protection
… Delivering effective and efficient Restoring Family … to high data protection standards as well as careful and regular assessment of the impact … wherever it may be found, to protect life and health, and ensure respect for the human …
ICRC in Yemen: Our work in 2015
… In 2015, more than two million Yemenis were … training sessions to 278 arms carriers and health personnel. t helped restore and … of more than 350 persons from some of the care, in a strictly impartial and neutral …
South Sudan: A pregnant mother’s long walk to a safe birth
… Giving birth in South Sudan is often dangerous and difficult. Medical care can be long distances away, forcing … travel on foot late in their pregnancy to a health facility – a hardship endured by …
Mali: Azahara, nursing in the face of adversity
… known as Azahara, has been an ICRC nurse in Gao, northern Mali , for over five years. … a key member of the team delivering surgical care at Gao hospital. After several years with … later, in the hospital or elsewhere, in good health and smiling," she explained. "That …
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