The World Health Organization has verified more than 70 attacks on hospitals and healthcare facilities.
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- The World Health Organization has verified more than 70 attacks on hospitals and healthcare facilities.
- “If there are soldiers outside the hospital or it is simply next to a train station, it can be attacked,” says the WHO.
- “Or it could be that a wounded soldier has a cellphone and is calling other troops and telling them that there is someone nearby,” she says.
- The WHO has verified over 70 attacks on hospitals, healthcare facilities in the past two decades, including in Afghanistan and Syria.