Protecting health care: Experts share best practices during regional meet
… The Health Care in Danger (HCiD) unit of the International … organized the second Asia-Pacific Regional Health Care in Danger Meeting from 21 to 24 …
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Zimbabwe: Protecting health care during SADC peace support operations
… practices to improve access to essential health services during peace support operations … African countries. "When access to health care is hindered or blocked during peacekeeping … Committee as part of the Health Care in Danger project, drew on the participants' …
Safeguarding health-care services: Will academia take up the challenge?
… academia can help tackle violence against health-care personnel and facilities. In May 2017, it … key messages from the Health Care in Danger initiative into its curricula. We asked …
Health care and violence: The need for effective protection
… Violence against health-care workers and facilities, medical vehicles … of the Movement launched the Health Care in Danger (HCiD) initiative . This initiative has …
Are we doing enough to safeguard health-care services?
… Health Care in Danger newsletter - March 2016 On 15 February, three more health-care facilities in Syria were bombed. …
Pakistan: Karachi says no to violence against health-care workers
… violent incidents that result in injuries to health workers and damage to hospitals, … Hospital joined forces to launch a Health Care in Danger project to protect health workers in …
Health care: another casualty of the armed conflict - Colombia
… that intensified was violence against health-care workers. The National Medical Mission … threats; communities having their access to health services restricted or cut off entirely; …
Best practices for ambulance services – excellent health care for patients
… are often a patient's first contact to health-care services. To guarantee the provision of … takes to do it, and duck away from potential danger, can prove to be fatal. In other, …
Ethiopia: Respecting and protecting health care during a conflict
… As part of the Health Care in Danger (HCiD) initiative, the ICRC seeks to … preventing and addressing violence against health care. In line with this initiative, the …
Afghanistan: A health-care system on life support
… infrastructure projects including in the health sector. It led to the immediate … To prevent the collapse of the secondary-health-care system, the International Committee of the …
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