SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2016, para. 7
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Parties to conflict must consider the long-term impact of attacks on health care. When a community is recovering from conflict it can take decades to reinstall skilled doctors, nurses, and the physical infrastructure to provide health care. Even a short period of hostilities can have a lasting impact, in particular because efforts to repair damage from attacks are sorely lacking.
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict