Every day in conflict zones, doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and first-aiders are coming under attack while trying to save lives. They are threatened, arrested or beaten, their hospitals looted or bombed. Some are unable to work because medical supplies can't get through. Some are forced to flee for their lives. Some are even killed.
One single attack, targeting a hospital or a doctor, can have devastating and long lasting consequences for hundreds of children, women and men.
Some people believe that attacks against health care are wrong but that little can be done to stop them during a conflict. Others are resigned and "accept" them as inevitable consequence of war, not knowing that they are, in fact, in violation of the rules of war.
Violence against health care is unacceptable, in peace as well as in war times, and can be prevented.
