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).
English Analysis on World and 18 other countries about Health, Safety and Security and Epidemic; published on 24 May 2021 by Safeguarding Health in Conflict
Attacks on Health Care Monthly News Brief - April 2021
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Burkina Faso
30 April 2021: In Dori city, Seno province, an ambulance transporting a patient was fired at by suspected ISWAP militants. No injuries were reported. Source:
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Burundi
05 April 2021: In Mwaro province, a nurse from the Tutsi ethnic group was attacked by members of the Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie - Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD), allegedly for refusing to join their political party. Source:
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Cameroon
07 April 2021: In Kumbo city, Bui department, Northwest region, suspected Ambazonian separatist fighters stormed and fired gunshots at the Saint Elizabeth Catholic General Hospital/Shisong Cardiac Centre, before abducting three nurses for allegedly allowing one of their members, who had been poisoned, to die. Source:
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