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Afghanistan: Violence Against Health Care in Conflict 2021

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On February 23, 2021 a prominent surgeon and head of the Baghlani Jadid Hospital was killed while traveling in Afghanistan’s Baghlan province. Local police accused the Taliban of carrying out the attack.

OVERVIEW

The Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) identified 107 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in Afghanistan in 2021, compared to 106 incidents in 2020.

Thirty-nine health workers were killed and another 32 injured. Health facilities were damaged or destroyed by violence on at least 24 occasions.

This factsheet is based on the dataset 2021 SHCC Health Care Afghanistan Data, which is available for download on the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX).

The SHCC count includes 47 incidents provided by the Conflict and Humanitarian Data Centre of the International NGO Safety Organisation (INSO) and 32 incidents uniquely reported by the WHO Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care.

The Health Cluster reported 46 health-related incidents in Afghanistan in 2021, while the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan reported 28 incidents for the first six months of the year.

Neither of these sources identified individual incidents, so we could not determine whether other sources had also accounted for them. A lack of data sharing made it impossible to ascertain whether these were additional incidents or whether they had already been included in the SHCC dataset.

This document focuses on the analysis of 107 incidents for which there was enough information on context, perpetrators, and weapons use to allow the nature and extent of reported violence against and obstruction of health care to be meaningfully described.