The World's Emergency Room: The Growing Threat to Doctors, Nurses, and Humanitarian Workers
Michael VanRooyen, "The World's Emergency Room: The Growing Threat to Doctors, Nurses, and Humanitarian Workers"
English | ISBN: 1250072123 | 2016 | 240 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
English | ISBN: 1250072123 | 2016 | 240 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
The director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative looks at the alarming rise in violence against doctors and aid workers, and how to stop it
Twenty years ago, the most common cause of death for medical humanitarians and other aid workers was traffic accidents; today, it is violent attacks. And the death of each doctor, nurse, paramedic, midwife, and vaccinator is multiplied untold times in the vulnerable populations deprived of their care. In a 2005 report, the ICRC found that for every soldier killed in the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than 60 civilians died due to loss of immunizations and other basic health services.
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