Protecting health care together
… The Health Care in Danger community is a unique force of change. … practice measures to protect patients and health care workers from violence. This …
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Health Care in Danger: A priority for the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
… Health Care in Danger, an ambitious project of the Red Cross … how they can help improve safe access to health care. …
Health Care in Danger campaign: Stop violence against medical personnel and facilities in Iraq
… Organized jointly by the Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment and the International … public awareness campaign entitled Health Care in Danger has been launched on 12 November during …
Photo gallery - Health care in danger: Launch of a common core on ethics
… of Operations and the heads of four major health care organizations. Babak Ali Naraghi, Head of the Health Care in Danger project, explaining how the ICRC …
Health Care in Danger: We still need to do a lot of advocacy
… of cholera. We asked Veronica Kenyi, SSRC health manager, to tell us how her National … in South Sudan affecting the delivery of health care? Health facilities are being looted and …
Health Care in Danger: "We told them they had to let us work"
… What were the main challenges to providing health care in Mali? The first challenge was … order to protect our hospitals and staff from danger. Next, I went to speak with the various …
Health Care in Danger: A hospital is more than just a building
… mental, is also essential to ensuring that health facilities function. This was the clear … of Health Facilities" as part of the Health Care in Danger project. The workshops generated a …
Health care in danger: Launch of a common core on ethics
… mark the launch of The Ethical principles of health care in times of armed conflict and other … code of ethics, already signed by five major health care organizations representing 30 …
Why is health care in danger in Papua New Guinea Highlands?
… Papua New Guinea The wrecked rooms of a health-care clinic, destroyed in the midst of a … stood abandoned for more than a year, with health-care workers too scared to stay in the …
10 Years of Health Care in Danger in the Movement
… While the protection of health care goes back to the very origins of the … decade. The genesis of the Health Care in Danger Project and Initiative was brought …
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