05/08/2013
The law says hospitals, ambulances and health-care workers must be protected and should never be targeted as they carry out their regular duties. This is often far from the reality. Worldwide, the lack of safe access to health care is causing untold suffering to millions of people.
Through the voices of doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and patients, this film shows the human cost of violence against health-care workers and facilities. It also highlights how medical, military and humanitarian organisations are coming together to find new approaches and new solutions.
Watch more videos from the ICRC’s Health Care in Danger playlist at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL976DC37B1EF9FD69 on the ICRC’s YouTube channel.