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Syria, South Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, and more; health facilities have been attacked, looted and destroyed.

Patients have been killed in their beds; health workers have been attacked as they rescued the wounded. A hospital is where the most vulnerable, the sick and injured, gather in times of war. Attacks against medical facilities and health workers, whether deliberate or indiscriminate, are part of generalised violence and atrocities committed against civilians in armed conflict. They deprive people of health services, often when they need them the most.

 
South Sudan

South Sudan conflict: violence against healthcare

Report 1 Jul 2014
 
MSF hospital in Leer, South Sudan, destroyed
South Sudan

“When I walk past the burned parts of the hospital, I try not to look”

Voices from the Field 1 Jul 2014
 
Malakal South Sudan 2014
South Sudan

Pervasive violence against healthcare

Press Release 1 Jul 2014
 
Journal article

Attacks on medical missions: overview of a polymorphous reality: the case of Médecins Sans Frontières

25 Jun 2014
Journal article
 
Muslim IPDs in Carnot + MSF health centres
Central African Republic

Humanitarian impasse in a Muslim enclave

Project Update 24 Jun 2014
 
Iraq

“There are severe shortages of drugs, and medical staff are fleeing the conflict areas en masse”

Voices from the Field 20 Jun 2014
 
NFI distribution Bashiqa/ Iraq
Iraq

MSF calls for respect of medical facilities

Press Release 18 Jun 2014
 
MSF Hospital in Farandallah - Frandala - South Kordofan
Sudan

MSF hospital bombed in Sudan

Press Release 17 Jun 2014
 
Central African Republic

Doctors on the frontline

Project Update 16 May 2014
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