Libya: armed conflict hinders urgent health care

Footage available from the ICRC Video Newsroom. Medical facilities before the conflict were functioning in Tripoli, but access to health care and life saving treatment became very difficult since the city was turned into a battlefield. Dozens of wounded people who urgently needed treatment did not receive it and died. Health-care workers often couldn't access medical facilities due to the fighting. At the same time, hospitals and local clinics needed adequate medical supplies to be able to treat the many war wounded.

© Comité international de la Croix-Rouge - vendredi 2 septembre 2011