Addressing violence against healthcare providers in South Asia
Recorded on Thursday 3 August 2023
Description:
Violence against health care providers is on the rise reaching epidemic proportions, especially in South Asia. Organised by the FIGO Committee on Women Facing Crisis in collaboration with the SAFOG Committee on Gender-based Violence, this webinar looks at causes, impact, and recommendations to deal with the situation from the South Asian perspective. It will explore causes of this violence in South Asia, the impact of violence on health care providers, and solutions to this phenomenon. The audience will gain better understanding of this issue and become better equipped to put interventions in place. They can become more effective advocates, raising the topic with their OBGYN societies and at the national level. They can contribute by negotiating with governments to put policies in place to protect healthcare providers, mitigate violence, and to deal with it when it happens.
Language: English with live interpretation in French and Spanish
Programme
Chairperson:
Dr Rubina Sohail, Chair of FIGO’s Women Facing Crisis Committee, Pakistan
Moderators:
Dr Asifa Noreen, Chair of SAFOG’s Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Rights (WSRR) Committee, Pakistan
Dr Yousaf Latif, SAFOG Secretary General, Pakistan
Introductory Remarks:
Dr Rohana Haththotuwa, SAFOG President, Sri Lanka
Dr Jeanne Conry, FIGO President, USA
Speakers:
Dr UDP Ratnisiri, Sri Lanka
Professor Shantha Kumari, FIGO Honorary Secretary, India
Dr Rubina Sohail, Chair of FIGO’s Women Facing Crisis Committee, Pakistan
Panellists:
Dr Narendra Malhotra, India
Dr Saroj Pandey, Nepal
Dr Phurb Doorjee, Bhutan
Dr Farrukh Zaman, Pakistan
Dr Shyam Desai, India
Dr Farhana Dewan, Bangladesh
See FIGO’s joint call to action with other SRHR organisations to defend frontline health care workers: Leading SRHR organisations issue a call to action to defend frontline health care workers