Table 1 Characteristics of health care attacks in Colombia between 1958 and 2019
From: Impacts of attacks to female health care workers in three territories of Colombia
Health care attacks | Rural/Urban | Type of attack | Type of victim | Perpetrator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
• Colombia 2124 individual victims 444 collective victims • Norte de Santander 165 individual victims 19 collective victims • Cauca 109 individual victims 46 collective victims • Chocó 61 individual victims 14 collective victims | Rural: 31.3% Urban: 27.5% Unknown:58.8% | • Against life and integrity: 72.5% • Against health infrastructure:14.3% • Against health activity: 12.7% • Violations of confidentiality: 0.4% • Acts of perfidy: 0.1% | • Health personnel: 93% including ancestral wise women and men and midwives • Patient companions: 5% • Civilian or combatant patients:1.4% | • Unknown: 39.8% • Guerrillas: 33.5% • Paramilitaries: 19.3% • State forces 3.2% • Actors acted jointly: 4.2% |