United Nations News Centre - Security Council demands protection for hospitals and health workers in conflict zones
With increasing wartime assaults on health facilities in countries
affected by conflict, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a
resolution today to strengthen protection for health care workers, the
sick and wounded, hospitals and clinics in war zones.
A
nurse taking care of an infant child in an incubator at the Al-Sabeen
Hospital in Sana’a. Hospitals and clinics in Yemen have been paralyzed
by the war: they have either been attacked, run out of medical supplies
and fuel or the medical staff have been forced to flee. Photo:
UNICEF/Mohamed Yasin
