#266 Healthcare amid civil wars and conflicts 🗓
With Dr Alex Bolek
The healthcare system and its service delivery are one of the vital systems in any given country the interruption of which is disastrous. The healthcare system has seven pillars:
- Human resources for health
- Health financing
- Access to medicines and medical supplies
- Leadership and management
- Health infrastructure
- Coordination with health partners
- Health information systems
Civil wars and conflict affect all these pillars and therefore the whole healthcare system. In this webinar, we will describe the impact of civil wars and conflict on the healthcare system, consequences of related service delivery interruption, and some strategies to continue providing healthcare services amid civil wars and conflict.
Further resources:
- Importance of peace in a nation by Alex Bolek
- Providing health services during a civil war: the experience of a garrison town in South Sudan by Rob Kevlihan
- African Conflicts Displace Over 40 Million People by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
- Aleppo Abandoned - A Case Study on Health Care in Syria by PHR
Dr Alex Bolek
Brother Alex studied medicine at the University of Oradea in Romania and has a Masters in Public and Tropical Health. He has worked as a GP and Medical Director in Khartoum, Sudan, and also for JHPIEGO and other international NGOs. He is the chairman of the CMDA in South Sudan and the Africa Coordinator for ICMDA. He is married to Helen and together they help care for 14 nephews and nieces.
