Doctors at Ebola Epicenter in Congo Threaten StrikeApril 25, 2019 |
Doctors at the epicenter of Congo’s Ebola crisis are threatening to go on strike indefinitely if health workers are attacked again. The march on Wednesday comes after a Cameroon national working for the World Health Organization was killed last week on assignment in eastern Congo
Quick Read
The annual figures, produced by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition chaired by our Len Rubenstein and presented to members of the Security Council, show that hospitals have been subjected to airstrikes, clinics have been torched and patients assaulted. In total there were 951 attacks on health facilities in 23 countries
Quick Read
Ebola Treatment Center in Congo Is Attacked Again; 1 DeadMarch 11, 2019 |
Heavily armed assailants again attacked an Ebola treatment center in the heart of eastern Congo’s deadly outbreak on Saturday, with one police officer killed and health workers injured, authorities said, while frightened patients waited in isolation rooms for the gunfire to end
Quick Read
Unknown Forces Attack Butembo Ebola Treatment CenterFebruary 28, 2019 |
“Tonight another deplorable attack on an Ebola treatment facility has taken place, this time in the city of Butembo,” said Hugues Robert, MSF emergency desk manager, in a news release
Quick Read
The fifth report by Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition, which was released Tuesday, said there were more than 700 attacks on hospitals, health workers, patients and ambulances in 23 countries around the globe in 2017. The coalition’s chair, Len Rubenstein, said in the report. “By the end of 2017, the number of hospitals shelled or bombed in the country approached 500, and then that grisly milestone was surpassed in early 2018.”
Quick Read
Attacks on Healthcare in Syria are likely UndercountedApril 25, 2018 |
Attacks on health facilities and health workers in Syria are likely more common than previously reported, and local data collectors can help researchers more accurately measure the extent and frequency of these attacks, according to a new study published this week in PLOS Medicine. Authors include our Leonard Rubenstein
Quick Read
A string of blatantly illegal attacks on clinics and ambulances in war zones around the world prompted the Security Council last year to demand protection for health workers and accountability for their attackers
Quick Read
How Many Health Workers Have Been Killed In Syria?March 16, 2017 |
In truth, there is no way to come with a 100 percent accurate count of all the health workers who have died since the conflict in Syria that began six years ago this month
Quick Read
