TERROR ATTACKS AGAINST AFRICAN HEALTH FACILITIES
TERROR ATTACKS AGAINST AFRICAN HEALTH FACILITIES

Author(s): János Besenyő
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Sociology, Security and defense, Studies in violence and power, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: healthcare facilities; terrorism; radicals; medical staff; explosions; hostage taking; cyber attacks;
Summary/Abstract: The article is about the attacks on health facilities including hospitals, medical staff and security inside the healthcare institutions. The author first goes on to present a short introduction about the general knowledge concerning the situation of the terrorist assaults on the hospitals and the medical staff. He divides the text into several chapters, which try to comprehend the most important sides of the attacks on healthcare institutions. First, he starts with armed assaults on hospitals and health workers, where he describes the dangers the terrorists pose against the institutions and the personnel in them. Then he goes on to talk about the attacks by radicalized medical staff against their own personnel and patients, which presents a serious problem for the security officers. He continues with attacks by explosions, hostage-taking and cyber attacks on medical facilities. At the end, the author concludes the article by giving some advises for the international community how to resolve these problems.

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