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SUMMARY
Attacks on health care are one of the major reasons affecting health service delivery in Syria. Under the leadership of WHO, the Health Cluster is tracking the impact of attacks on the health care providers and service delivery infrastructures.
During 2017, Health Cluster Turkey Hub has received 382 alerts on violence against health care, from various internal health cluster partners and external verifiers including international humanitarian agencies. out of these alerts there are 192 incidents. Generally, the annual report showed a decrease of 42% incidents as compared to the last year.
Out of the total 192 incidents, there were 122 verified incidents on 73 health facilities and 69 ambulances, that resulted in the killing of at least 73 people including 28 health workers and 10 patients, and wounding at least 149 people including 46 health workers, 4 patients and 99 others.
Hospitals were the most affected in 2017, followed by primary health care centers and ambulatory systems.
Idelb governorate had the highest number of reported incidents with 40 incidents, followed by 17 incidents in Hama, 16 in Rural Damascus and 15 in Dar’a. As compared to 2016, when Aleppo had the highest number of reported incidents with 89 incidents, followed by Idleb with 32 incidents, Hama and Dar’a governorate