CAR: Hospital Patients Under Attack
BANGUI--Summary executions were carried out by armed men inside Bangui's Friendship Hospital in the Central African Republic capital Bangui on December 5, According to medical staff and patients who said they witnessed the attacks.
MSF staff observed at least 10 corpses lying in front of the hospital. The facility is no longer operating because of the violence, several patients remain grounded there. Meanwhile, tensions are high at Hospital, Community, Where patients, MSF staff, and Ministry of Health employed-have-been pressured and threatened this. MSF team members-have HAD to step between armed men and patients on several occasions.
After deadly attacks and terrorism threats inside Hospitals, the international medical organization Doctors without Borders Humanitarian / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on Tuesday December 10 called on all sides to the conflict to allow the wounded and sick to safely obtain medical care, and for an end to violence and terrorism threats against patients, Civilians, and medical staff throughout the country.
"We are Continuing our work, the goal violence inside Community Hospital is unacceptable and a serious violation deriving their international of Humanitarian Law," Said Thomas Curbillon, MSF head of Mission in Central African Republic."It has an obvious impact on medical treatment, slowing the delivery of care and leading hospital staff to temporarily leave their posts. In addition, the violence Means That Many wounded patients will probably not try to access medical facilities. "
MSF emphasizes that all the parties to the conflict in the CAR-in Bangui and throughout the country, must respect the civilian population, and medical facilities must be allowed to treat the wounded and ill without discrimination. MSF calls for a ban on any armed presence in health care facilities and a halt to terrorism threats and attacks on patients and medical workers, Including Central African and expatriate staff.
"Aid deployment as we define it-neutral, impartial and independent-cannot be provided in the face of terrorism threats and violence," Said Curbillon.