Hundreds of thousands of people living in worn-torn countries are affected by attacks on medics, the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) said.
The comments come ahead of a meeting of leading medics and humanitarian organisations which aims to establish practical ways to protect healthcare workers in conflict.
The meeting, which is hosted by the RSM, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the British Red Cross, hopes to examine measures to protect health workers so they can safely deliver care in war zones.
Experts will share best practice on making hospitals and ambulances safe so they can deliver life-saving services amid conflict.
They will also discuss better ways of quantifying the problem of attacks on healthcare at the meeting, which will be held in London tomorrow.
“Attacks on healthcare are an unacknowledged humanitarian crisis, which affects hundreds of thousands each year in the world’s conflict zones because doctors have fled, hospitals have been damaged or ambulances have been targeted by hostile fire,” an RSM spokeswoman said.
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