{"id":256460,"date":"2020-05-28T22:36:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T02:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=256460"},"modified":"2020-05-28T22:36:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T02:36:20","slug":"red-cross-decries-attacks-on-health-workers-amid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/05\/28\/red-cross-decries-attacks-on-health-workers-amid-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross decries attacks on health workers amid crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_256462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-256462\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ashkan-forouzani-l-NIPb-9Njg-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-256462 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ashkan-forouzani-l-NIPb-9Njg-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ashkan-forouzani-l-NIPb-9Njg-unsplash.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ashkan-forouzani-l-NIPb-9Njg-unsplash-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ashkan-forouzani-l-NIPb-9Njg-unsplash-768x1102.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ashkan-forouzani-l-NIPb-9Njg-unsplash-714x1024.jpg 714w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-256462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The signatories said that healthcare workers and facilities and medical vehicles should never be a target of violence. (File photo: Ashkan Forouzani\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>GENEVA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday signed a joint declaration by global organizations representing more than 30 million healthcare professionals, condemning mounting attacks against them amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe declaration follows an increase in attacks against health workers and facilities linked to Covid-19: more than 200 incidents of violence have been recorded by the ICRC in over 13 countries since the beginning of the pandemic,\u201d according to the declaration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least 208 reports of such incidents have emerged since the beginning of the pandemic, and each day brings new stories of intimidation and harm,\u201d it added. \u201cThese are reported attacks; the actual numbers are likely much higher.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The signatories said that healthcare workers and facilities and medical vehicles should never be a target of violence.<\/p>\n<p>They urged governments, communities, and weapon-bearers to respect and protect health care at all times, and to contribute to creating a protective environment in which health care can be provided safely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, the sad reality is that health workers have for a long time been subject to many shocking forms of violence,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>The statement was signed also by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the International Council of Nurses, M\u00e9decins du Monde, the World Medical Association, International Hospital Federation, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the International Committee of Military Medicine and other groups.\u00a0<strong><em>(Anadolu)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA\u00a0\u2013 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday signed a joint declaration by global organizations representing more &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":256462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256463,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256460\/revisions\/256463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}