Ny rapport analyserer udfordringerne i det øgede – tvungne – samarbejde mellem nødhjælpsarbejdere og militære styrker for at få sundhedsydelser ud til lokalbefolkningerne i skrøbelige stater – kan NATO overhovedet lege “landsbydoktor”.
NEW YORK, 20 December 2012 (IRIN): Delivering health aid to hotspots including Haiti and Afghanistan has brought together – and at times pitted against one another – humanitarians and militaries in an uneasy but increasingly necessary union.
As the military’s role in health aid is likely to grow – since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the US military has been deployed 40 times to natural disasters worldwide.
This delineates (tegner et billede af), that the rules and responsibilities of each side in the field has become all the more necessary.
Even after some two decades of working more closely with militaries to deliver aid, researchers and humanitarians are still divided about such cooperation in health care.
“It is not just a case of one-off costs, but the long-term impact of a hospital not being seen as a safe or neutral space, or of it being associated with an opponent’s strategy,” said Simone Haysom.
He is a researcher with the London-based Overseas Development Institute’s Humanitarian Practice Group, who co-authored a study on trends in coordination between humanitarian organizations and militaries.
Våben nær sundhedsklinikker gør dem til konfliktmål
“To have any type of weapon near a health structure makes them the target in conflict. That is why a no-weapon strategy is the best way to guarantee patients’ security,” Michiel Hofman, a UK-based operations adviser for health NGO Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), told IRIN in early 2012.
Somalia, where two of MSF’s workers were kidnapped and another two killed in late 2011, is the only country where the NGO uses armed guards (private) near its clinics.
Only in Afghanistan in the 1980s and the Russian Republic of Chechnya (Tjetjenien) in the 1990s has MSF been forced to use government or opposition forces for security. Notwithstanding, the no-weapons-in-clinics rule is absolute.
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