Attack

Aleppo Hospital Hit by Barrel Bomb, Underground Infrastructure Saves Lives

Tuesday, April 28, 2015
A barrel bomb dropped from a government helicopter hit a SAMS-supported facility in Aleppo today at 1:20pm. The barrel bomb went through the roof of the operating room in the basement of the facility, damaging the hospital's infrastructure and destroying essential medical equipment. The facility has been temporarily closed.

In the DRC, Maternity too Often Means Mortality

Monday, February 9, 2015
Routine violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has severely weakened the health system. Clinics are in disarray and many medical workers have left or refuse to work in hot zones. Pregnant women are one of the vulnerable groups swept up in the tumult, and the country has one of the highest maternal death rates in the world.

No Safe Place | Full Report

Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Physicians for Human Rights–Israel commissioned a fact-finding mission to investigate the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip that began in July 2014. Eight independent international medical experts gathered evidence on the types, causes, and patterns of injuries and attacks; attacks on medical teams and facilities; evacuation; impact of the conflict on the health care system; and longer-term issues. A new report presents their findings, including that medical teams were killed or injured in the course of evacuating the injured and that at least one apparent deliberate attack on a hospital resulted in several people killed and injured.

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