Chapter 3: Rights and responsibilities

CONCLUSION: COLLECTING WOUNDED PEOPLE IN NEED

Obligations of all parties to the conflict

Providing the wounded and the sick with medical care and attention:

➪ As far as practicable
➪ With the least possible delay
➪ Without discrimination

Responsibilities of health-care personnel

➪ Treating the wounded and the sick humanely
➪ Not abandoning the wounded and the sick
➪ Advocating and providing effective and impartial care without distinction

Rights of health-care personnel

➪ Right to demand assistance from the authorities

Obligations of all parties to the conflict

➪ Whenever circumstances permit, and particularly after fighting, all parties to armed conflicts must, without delay, take all possible measures to search for, collect and evacuate the wounded and the sick without adverse distinction.

Responsibilities of health-care personnel

➪ Assisting the authorities

Rights of health-care personnel

➪ Right to remind the authorities of their duty