Attacks on Health Care Monthly News Brief - May 2021
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No Respite: Violence Against Health Care in Conflict
The 2021 Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition s report documents 806 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in 2020. Health workers were killed, kidnapped, injured and assaulted and health facilities and transport damaged and destroyed. Access the data.
Factsheets and individual datasets are available for: Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, CAR,
DRC, Libya, Mali, Mexico, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nagorno-Karabakh, Nigeria, oPt, Somalia,
South Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
SHCC Attacks on Health Care
The section aligns with the definition of attacks on health care used by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC).
Killings, brutal beatings, roadside ambushes and large-scale looting of emergency supplies have put life-saving assistance and essential services in peril.