5 years on, there has not been significant change: access to health care continues to be impeded
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Colleagues,
Today we are here to reflect on and improve our efforts to protect health care and health care workers. This month we mark five years since the UN Security Council adopted resolution 2286.
Five years on, disappointingly, I have to say, there has not been significant change: access to health care continues to be impeded and implementation of measures laid out in the resolution has been weak. Between January 2016 and December 2020, the ICRC documented 3,780 incidents affecting the delivery of health care in 49 countries. We found that local health care providers and facilities are hard hit by the violence:
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In an ideal world, health-care workers who risk their lives to save others would have just as many supporters as footballers. Unfortunately, that’s far from the reality.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) counted no less than 3,780 attacks on health-care workers and facilities between 2016 and 2020, in an average of 33 countries each of those years. In response, the ICRC, Blaise Matuidi and the ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi are launching today a campaign to raise awareness of the essential role of health-care workers and the need to protect them.
One reason Mr Matuidi signed on to the campaign was because the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country dear to his heart, was one of the places with the highest number of incidents. “It’s horrible that the people who take care of us are victims of violence, in the DRC and elsewhere,” he said. “Surgeons, hospital porters, nurses – they should all have the same popular support as us footballers.”
Health-care in danger: Blaise Matuidi teams up with the ICRC to protect health-care workers in conflict zones
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Geneva (ICRC) – In an ideal world, health-care workers who risk their lives to save others would have just as many supporters as footballers. Unfortunately, that’s far from the reality. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) counted no less than 3,780 attacks on health-care workers and facilities between 2016 and 2020, in an average of 33 countries each of those years. In response, the ICRC, Blaise Matuidi and the ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi are today launching a campaign to raise awareness of the essential role of health-care workers and the need to protect them.
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