An NGO report has found there were 1,172 violent acts against healthcare workers globally in 2020, with over 400 incidents of medical staff working to tackle Covid-19 being subjected to beatings, verbal insults and even detention.
The Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition’s latest report into health workers at risk of violence during the course of their service laid out how medics were subjected to targeted harassment or attacks from people who opposed their efforts to limit the spread of Covid-19 and treat coronavirus patients.
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