Healthcare Under Fire: Stories from Healthcare Workers During Armed Conflict
Healthcare Under Fire:
Stories from Healthcare Workers During Armed Conflict
Whether working under the stresses and dangers of armed conflict or being deliberately targeted in an attack, providing healthcare during armed conflict generates intense and distinct ethical issues and challenges. In this issue of VOICES, authors include physicians, therapists, medical laboratory workers, health researchers, and more. They write about their experiences providing care to the sick and injured during armed conflicts in Israel, Palestine, Ukraine, Myanmar, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
"Serving as a healthcare worker in a conflict zone is an experience that is characterized by unimaginable challenges. The greatest lesson we can come away with from these stories is that we must not be silent. These stories are about people; people with names, faces, and families; and people who lose their lives in war."