SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2016, para. 6
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- Almost half of all medical facilities in the Syrian Arab Republic are closed or only partially functioning. In Aleppo, there have been a number of air strikes on hospitals in the last six months, and children living there are confronted with the almost impossible task of obtaining basic health care in order to survive. In May, a Syrian doctor wrote in response to one attack that what was most heart-breaking was the need for doctors to choose which patients to save because there were not enough doctors to treat everyone; their hospitals, though they were the targets of bombs, still overflowed with the sick and injured. In Afghanistan, the attack on the Médecins sans frontières hospital in Kunduz in October 2015 caused deaths and injuries of 49 medical staff. The hospital was the only fully functioning trauma care facility for the north-eastern region of Afghanistan and had provided lifesaving procedures to 5,000 people in the period running up to the attack. In Yemen, to give one example, in Taiz, three health facilities were repeatedly hit in 23 separate incidents throughout 2015.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 6
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