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Sep 14, 2023 · MARKING TEN YEARS OF HEALTH CARE IN DANGER IN THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT MOVEMENT. Attacks against health-care workers, hospitals and ambulances disrupt health-care services, often to a point of no return, depriving people of life-saving treatment. Violence against health care must end. Experience.
- The Issue
The ICRC, through research and work in the field, has...
- The initiative
Health Care in Danger (HCID) is an initiative of the...
- What can be done
The HCID recommendations and measure are the fruit of a two...
- Resource Centre
It is the result of a strategic collaboration between the...
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HCID – THE ISSUE; HCID initiative; Training and Tools;...
- Training and Tools
Below you can find an overview on our trainings and tools:...
- HCID Events
REGIONAL Health Care in Danger EVENTS 2021-23 These meetings...
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ICRC Health Care In Danger. Recherche. L’initiative;...
- The Issue
With its devastating direct consequences for the victims as well as a long-term impact on access to and delivery of health care for many, violence against health care is a critical humanitarian issue that must be addressed.
Health Care in Danger (HCID) is an initiative of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement aimed at addressing the issue of violence against patients, health workers, facilities and vehicles, and ensuring safe access to and delivery of health care in armed conflict and other emergencies.
health-care personnel have to take into account a number of complex ethical considerations. Clearly, an up-to-date guide for health-care personnel working in armed conflicts and other emergencies is needed. The ICRC hopes that this guide will, to a great extent, fulfil this need, encourage health-care personnel to recognize their role in upholding
health-care services are most vulnerable to disrup-tion, interference and attack. Violence, both actual and threatened, affects the delivery of health care in several ways. First, active fighting in the vicinity of health-care facilities prevents access to them by the wounded and the sick, health-care staff, and vehicles carrying
It is the result of a strategic collaboration between the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Elrha, with research undertaken by RAND Europe, to provide a Situational Analysis and Review of the Evidence Base on violence against health care, as part of the ICRC’s Health Care in Danger initiative
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May 15, 2013 · ICRC's study identifies two new trends in the issue of "Health Care in Danger". First, many first aiders arriving at an emergency are wounded by a second explosion. Secondly, violent incidents disrupt prevention programmes such as routine vaccination sessions.
