'I Will Kill You' — Health Care Workers Face Rising Attacks Amid COVID-19
in Tripoli, Libya. With 400 hospital beds, it was one of the only health facilities in the country to treat COVID-19 patients.
The doctor estimates that at his Aden hospital a family member of a patient threatens a health worker with a gun or some kind of violence about three times a week., a researcher with the group Physicians for Human Rights, which focuses on the Middle East and North Africa region, could not verify the doctor's account but said his group has corroborated the widespread use of guns to threaten health workers in Yemen.
Flashing a gun is not uncommon, he said: The proliferation of small arms in Yemen has been an issue for years, and it's not uncommon for civilians to carry"handguns, machine guns, automatic weapons — they are very widespread." When he was threatened in April, the first thing he thought about was his two children and wife:"I felt sad. What will they do if I get killed?"When asked if he had any special techniques or magical phrases to say to people who intimidate or threaten him on the job, the doctor said he just tries his best to de-escalate the situation. He tells them:"Pointing a gun won't help. It frightens the staff; it confuses them.
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