First report on violent attacks on healthcare shows 959 deaths over two years

An attempt to track the number of attacks on healthcare in countries with emergencies has found a total of 594 attacks over a two year period from 2014 to 2015, resulting in 959 deaths and 1561 injuries.1

The report by the World Health Organization collated information from a range of publicly available data, including sources such as Physicians for Human Rights (a not for profit human rights organisation) …