Whether in times of peace or conflict, a set of medical ethics and principles guides the work of healthcare workers and hospitals – the commitment to save lives and reduce suffering.
In times of war, to maintain some humanity in armed conflict, certain rules and agreements have been made that mean targeting civilians and civilian buildings – including healthcare facilities – constitute a war crime.
Read more at:
Is Russia committing war crimes by bombing hospitals in Ukraine? | Russia-Ukraine war | Al Jazeera
Showing posts with label Hospitals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hospitals. Show all posts
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
The Netherlands: COVID-19: Dutch hospitals sound alarm as eastern Europe reports record daily deaths
Hospitals in the southern Dutch province of Limburg warned the government on Tuesday that they can no longer cope with new COVID-19 patients.
"We are heading straight for a healthcare blockage and the entire system is grinding to a standstill," five hospitals in the border province said.
"We are convinced that other parts of the Netherlands will soon follow," they added in a statement.
Read more at: https://www.euronews.com/2021/11/09/covid-19-dutch-hospitals-sound-alarm-as-eastern-europe-reports-record-daily-deaths
"We are heading straight for a healthcare blockage and the entire system is grinding to a standstill," five hospitals in the border province said.
"We are convinced that other parts of the Netherlands will soon follow," they added in a statement.
Read more at: https://www.euronews.com/2021/11/09/covid-19-dutch-hospitals-sound-alarm-as-eastern-europe-reports-record-daily-deaths
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
War Criminals: Hospitals Cannot Be Targets in War - by Jason Cone
On April 27, a series of airstrikes hit Al Quds hospital in the
embattled Syrian city of Aleppo, killing upwards of 50 people, including
at least 29 women and children, and wounding scores more. The
hospital—its emergency room, its intensive care unit, its operating
theater, all of it—was destroyed. Doctors were among the dead as well,
including one of the very few, if not the last, pediatrician in Aleppo.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supported Al Quds hospital with supplies and funding to help its remarkably brave staff assist patients. The bombing was shocking news. But, like a painfully recurring nightmare, it was not surprising.
There have been far too many of these attacks in recent years, in far too many places. It seems obvious enough that people, even people at war, should not attack hospitals and kill medical workers and patients. And yet in Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and elsewhere, it happens over and over again—a man-made, and eminently avoidable, epidemic of death and destruction.
Read more, click here: Time Magazine
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supported Al Quds hospital with supplies and funding to help its remarkably brave staff assist patients. The bombing was shocking news. But, like a painfully recurring nightmare, it was not surprising.
There have been far too many of these attacks in recent years, in far too many places. It seems obvious enough that people, even people at war, should not attack hospitals and kill medical workers and patients. And yet in Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and elsewhere, it happens over and over again—a man-made, and eminently avoidable, epidemic of death and destruction.
Read more, click here: Time Magazine
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