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New tool helps hospitals prepare to face violence

… The Security Survey for Health Facilities is a new tool to help hospitals and other health-care facilities prepare for attacks against … (MSF) – as part of the Health Care in Danger (HCID) initiative. Federico Sittaro …

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Sudan: Thousands of civilians trapped in fighting have nowhere safe to go

22-08-2024 Port Sudan (ICRC) – Thousands of civilians remain trapped by heavy fighting in Al Fasher, Sudan, where Al Saudi, the only remaining hospital, has suffered repeated attacks, and the …

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Sudan

Gaza: Repeated mass casualty events put hospitals under severe strain

… response capacity of our hospital – and all health facilities in southern Gaza – to care for those with life-threatening … the limited availability of supplies and healthcare response, as hospitals have …

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Gaza Field Hospital. Surgeons at work (2024). Hisham Mhanna/ICRC

Webinar: International health and humanitarian organizations welcome the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

… nuclear weapons and a big win for planetary health. The International Committee of the Red … challenges for providing medical care and other humanitarian assistance to … of nuclear war." Experts now assess that the danger of nuclear war is as great as it was …

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Newsletter - September 2020: Weakened by conflict, health systems in the Middle East struggle to cope with COVID-19

… pandemic has further destabilized public health systems already weakened by war and … COVID-19 Hospitals in Gaza are striving to care for COVID19 patients with only four hours … basic food items. [EN, AR] HEALTH CARE IN DANGER Health staff across Iraq are working …

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Ethiopia: Hospitals in Mekelle struggling to care for wounded as medical supplies run out; Red Cross ambulances evacuate the injured

… state capital Mekelle, local hospitals and health facilities are running dangerously low on medical supplies to care for the wounded as well as other mounting …

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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 …

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ICRC study: Over 41% health workers experienced violence in last 2 months

… Over 41 per cent of health-care workers reported having experienced some … Mirwais Khan, who heads the Health Care in Danger (HCiD) initiative of the ICRC. "We …

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Haiti: Under chronic stress and in constant fear, health workers strive to save lives

… a medical worker in one of the few remaining health facilities operating there, even less … sparsely equipped rooms where patients and care givers await treatment in his hospital. … the most vulnerable should never face such danger.”  In addition to the extremely …

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Ambulance workers shield a patient on a stretcher from the sun with an umbrella

Violence against health workers must cease to help contain COVID-19 emergency

… violence and acts of intimidation against health workers and urges respect for all … an already difficult situation. Health-care staff, hospitals & ambulances are often … workers. As part of the global Health Care in Danger (HCiD) initiative , the ICRC, the IRCS, …

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