the Healthcare Assault Monitoring System From 2018 to 2020, recorded data on attacks on health workers, patients, supplies, ambulances and facilities in 17 countries affected by emergencies and fragile settings.
Countries at risk
These included Ethiopia, Yemen, Syria, Mozambique, Nigeria, occupied Palestinian territory, Myanmar, Central African Republic, Somalia, and others. “we Very concerned that hundreds of health facilities will be destroyed or closed downHealth workers have been killed and injured, and millions of people are deprived of the health care they deserve,” Altaf Musani, Director of Emergency Health Interventions, said. Who is the, to reporters in Geneva.
The WHO initiative has three main pillars of action, namely the systematic collection of evidence of attacks, advocacy for an end to such attacks, and the promotion of good practices to protect health care.
It provides a global overview of attacks on health care, the resources they have impacted and their immediate impact on health workers and patients.
fatal results
Detailing the results, Mr. Musani said:One in six accidents results in the death of a patient or health worker in 2020”.
He added that health workers are the worst affected resource, accounting for “two-thirds of all attacks in 2018 and 2019 and fifty percent of all incidents recorded in 2020,” not facilities or supplies.
The report warned that the impact of attacks on health care far exceeds the endangerment of health care providers, especially as they continue COVID-19 Response.
‘double effect’
“Frequently impacted on the mental health of health workers and their willingness to report for work, prepared communities for access to health care and also significantly reduced resources to respond to health crises, among other things.”
“The multiplier effect of a single accident is huge,” he said, and had “long-term consequences for the health system as a whole.”
Mr. Musani called on all conflicting parties to ensure safe working spaces for the delivery of health care services and “safe access to health care, without violence, threat or fear.” “One attack is too many,” he warned.
The World Health Organization’s Attacks on Health Care (AHC) initiative was launched in December 2017, following a World Health Assembly resolution adopted in 2012, in which Member States requested the WHO to provide global leadership in collecting and disseminating information on attacks on health care. In complex humanitarian emergencies. .
The need for systematic collection of data on attacks on health care has been supported by Security Council Resolution No. 2286 adopted in 2016.
The findings are the first set of verified and reliable evidence, which can be used to create analyzes and reports to better understand attacks on healthcare.
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