April 22, 2011 Report: Do No Harm: a Call for Bahrain to End Systematic attacks on Doctors and Patient
Missing medical personnel.
Bahrain's Ambassador to the U.S. should read the report.
Showing posts with label medical conditions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical conditions. Show all posts
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Bahrain: Physicans for Human Rights publish carefully documented report revealing systematic attacks against medical personnel, among many troubling findings
April 22, 2011 Report: Do No Harm: a Call for Bahrain to End Systematic attacks on Doctors and Patient
Missing medical personnel.
Bahrain's Ambassador to the U.S. should read the report.
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Bahrain Center for Human Rights Debunks Government Claims
[Added: Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières calls upon the Bahraini government to stop using medical facilities as instruments of repression.
"A report released today by MSF illustrates how Bahrain’s hospitals and health centers are no longer safe havens for the sick or injured, but rather places to be feared.
"“Wounds, especially those inflicted by distinctive police and military gunfire, are used to identify people for arrest, and the denial of medical care is being used by Bahraini authorities to deter people from protesting,” said Latifa Ayada, MSF medical coordinator. “Health facilities are used as bait to identify and arrest those who dare seek treatment.”"]
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Serious allegations that Israel is targeting protected personnel from an aid worker in Gaza
The blogger is a Scotish woman who has been apparently been in Gaza since July 2008. Here blog is focused on the medical realm.
In Gaza: "On 31st December, around 2 am, two emergency medical services personnel were targeted by an Israeli missile as they attempted to reach injured in the Jabaliya region, northern Gaza. The first died immediately, the second soon after of complications from his internal injuries.
"Two days later, 2 more medics were injured in the area east of Gaza, again in the line of duty, again trying to reach the injured.
"Under the Geneva Conventions, Israel is obliged to allow and ensure safe passage to medical personnel to the injured. Instead, Israel routinely targets them.
"At the Jabaliya Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) station, the team there tells me of their injuries. Half, they say, of emergency medics and drivers in Gaza have been injured by Israel while trying to perform the duties.
"One shows me a scar from a gunshot wound to his arm. Another tells of being twice injured: once, shot in the stomach, another time, also shot in the arm. The bullet holes in their ambulances speak for themselves."
In Gaza: "On 31st December, around 2 am, two emergency medical services personnel were targeted by an Israeli missile as they attempted to reach injured in the Jabaliya region, northern Gaza. The first died immediately, the second soon after of complications from his internal injuries.
"Two days later, 2 more medics were injured in the area east of Gaza, again in the line of duty, again trying to reach the injured.
"Under the Geneva Conventions, Israel is obliged to allow and ensure safe passage to medical personnel to the injured. Instead, Israel routinely targets them.
"At the Jabaliya Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) station, the team there tells me of their injuries. Half, they say, of emergency medics and drivers in Gaza have been injured by Israel while trying to perform the duties.
"One shows me a scar from a gunshot wound to his arm. Another tells of being twice injured: once, shot in the stomach, another time, also shot in the arm. The bullet holes in their ambulances speak for themselves."
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