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#ProtectHealthWorkers: stop the attacks on health care in Syria

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A bloody waiting room following attack on a health facility

#ProtectHealthWorkers: stop the attacks on health care in Syria

18 August 2016 – #ProtectHealthWorkers is a campaign by WHO focusing on health workers and health facilities, highlighting the challenges and risks they face every day, and monitoring their safety, making sure they remain protected and unharmed. Syria is now the most dangerous country in the world for health workers. The number of attacks on hospitals and health centres has not gone down in spite of international attention – this year they have gone up.

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