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… Health Care in Danger newsletter - March 2016 On 15 February, three more health-care facilities in Syria were bombed. …
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Diary: Bearing witness to the crisis in Syria
… The most basic things – food, water, shelter, health care – nothing can be taken for granted … parcels, obtaining security guarantees for dangerous areas, establishing what kind of …
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 … our work in health has expanded from direct care of those injured in battle to include war … as senior surgeons steered the patient out of danger, calling the opportunity to help “a …
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 …
Restoring Family Links code of conduct on data protection
… 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 … place, approaching the data subject could endanger or cause severe distress to the data …
ICRC in Yemen: Our work in 2015
… 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 … headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the ICRC dangers that the people of Yemen have faced in …
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
… a key member of the team delivering surgical care at Gao hospital. After several years with … work is mainly carried out in what can be dangerous conflict zones. But she won't be put … later, in the hospital or elsewhere, in good health and smiling," she explained. "That …
32nd International Conference: Resolutions and reports
… report (2015, 32IC/15/19.3) Resolution 4: Health Care in Danger: Continuing to protect the delivery of …
Protecting the delivery of health care: Steps in the right direction
… need to continue working together to protect health-care workers and facilities. Driven by that … commitment, Resolution 4, " Health Care in Danger: Continuing to protect the delivery of …
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