Health Care
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Deliver comprehensive health programmes
We provide high-quality health services in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. Our work covers traditional fields such as first aid, war surgery, physical rehabilitation and health care in detention, while also expanding into primary health care, hospital care and mental health and psychosocial support. In so doing, we protect lives, reduce suffering and uphold human dignity.
Integrate health into protection and prevention responses
Health is central to humanitarian protection. We embed health activities in our wider protection and prevention efforts, tackling issues such as discrimination in access to care, the safety of medical staff, torture and ill-treatment, the needs of families of missing persons and sexual violence. This ensures that preserving health also safeguards rights and dignity.
Adopt a holistic public health approach
We address health needs alongside other essentials such as water, sanitation, housing and income. By combining health care with these areas, we create people-centred, sustainable responses that are better suited to complex humanitarian realities.
Collaborate with the Movement and other partners
We work closely with national health authorities, National Red Cross and Red Crescent Society partners and other organizations to strengthen the long-term availability and quality of health services. This collaboration ensures access to multidisciplinary expertise and reinforces local systems, while still delivering specialized care directly where it is most needed.
For more information, please see the main What We Look For page.
First aid and pre-hospital emergency care
The ICRC’s first aid and pre-hospital emergency care programmes aim to ensure that wounded and sick people receive safe, humane and effective treatment, and/or are referred to the right facility for further care. These programmes are delivered by skilled emergency responders working in safe conditions, underpinned by humanitarian values and adapted to realities and resources on the ground.
Primary health care
The aim of the ICRC’s primary health care programme is to guarantee a first point of access to health care for victims of armed conflict. Primary health care services rely on professionally trained staff to support care, treat common diseases, and carry out preventive actions such as child vaccination and ante-natal care for pregnant women.
Hospital care
The ICRC supports existing hospital structures, provides direct patient care, brings in medical supplies, enhances the capacity of local hospital staff and contributes to improving people’s access to hospital services.
Health care in detention
The health care in detention programme aims to protect the life and health of detainees and to ensure that governments respect detainees’ dignity and right to health at all stages of detention. Promoting adequate health care in places of detention often also improves the health of the community outside prison walls.
Physical rehabilitation
ICRC physical rehabilitation projects strengthen services in a country, improve access for people with disabilities, enhance service quality and secure long-term viability, helping individuals fully participate in society.
Mental health and psychosocial support
Mental health and psychosocial support covers activities to address psychosocial, psychological and psychiatric problems caused or worsened by conflict. Programmes build local agency capacity, stabilize and improve patient mental health, and ensure the emotional well-being of affected individuals and communities.
For more information, please see the main What We Look For page.
Read our colleagues’ stories
▶️ Interview with Bhava Poudyal, Regional Mental Health and Psychosocial Specialist
▶️ Interview with Panagiotis Ioannidis, First Aid and Pre-hospital Emergency Care Delegate
▶️ Explore the stories of our colleagues
For more information, please see the main What We Look For page.