Health care in danger: Identify Health Care Providers and Increase Respect for the Emblems

Conference participants could pledge to:

• Assess, or introduce if not yet in place, and ensure enforcement of domestic legislation regulating the indicative and protective use of the red cross/red crescent/red crystal emblem
• Create or strengthen national tracking system to monitor the misuse of the red cross/red crescent/red crystal emblem
• Assess and reinforce measures of control repressing unauthorized or abusive use of the red cross/red crescent/red crystal emblem
• Undertake measures to ensure distinctiveness of the red cross/red crescent/red crystal emblems from other identification of health care
• Undertake awareness-raising activities to ensure better understanding of the purpose of and the correct use of the emblems and/or other identification for health care in all situations
• Share good practices to prevent and address the misuse of the red cross/red crescent/red crystal emblems.

Action plan

Indicator(s) which could be considered:

• Awareness-raising campaigns, reaching all sections of the community
• Number of national or regional fora facilitating sharing of experiences to prevent the misuse of the emblem
• Monitoring system on the marking of health care personnel, facilities and medical transports
• Collection of incidents of misuse of identification of health care and mapping of the action undertaken to remedy the situation
• Number of emblem misuses reported in the country (reduced according to initial benchmark).