Health Workers at Risk: Violence Against Health Care | NLM

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Health Workers at Risk: Violence Against Health Care

06/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Safeguarding Health in Conflict. Published: 6/2020. This 68-page report, an in-depth assessment of violence and threats to health care in regions experiencing armed conflict and political violence, identifies more than 1,203 reported incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in 20 countries and territories experiencing conflict in 2019, compared to the 973 reported in 23 countries and territories for 2018. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the consequences of violence against health care will be felt even more acutely. (PDF)