End report Belgium and Belgian Red Cross – Soins de santé en danger – Formation des personnels de santé

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Actions taken:

• The Belgian Red Cross has drafted in July-September 2016 an action plan for its IHL activities in 2017-2021 and has included HCiD as one of the main issues of advocacy. Furthermore, IHL training activities of the medical personnel (civilian and military – to be further defined) and training or information sessions on HCiD for staff members of the National Society are included.
• In June 2016, the Working Group on IHL dissemination of the National Committee of IHL chaired by the Belgian Red Cross, decided to start a reflection on a strategy to approach the medical personnel members and whether specific IHL dissemination activities focused on their rights and responsibilities and on the protection and the uses of the emblems should be developed. A note stating the current state of affair was drafted between June and November. The note highlights the need to strengthen IHL dissemination for medical personnel, especially civil personnel (professionals and students in medicine) through a specific course or existing general courses of IHL, seminars or conferences, and existing materials including those developed by the ICRC.

Some concrete actions have however been undertaken to train the medical personnel:

• The inclusion of the Belgian Red Cross in the programmes of the postgraduate ‘Tropical Medicine for bachelors in nursing and midwifery’ and the postgraduate certificate ‘in Tropical Medicine and International Health’ (doctors) of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp (since 2017).
• According to a cooperation agreement concluded in 2012 in the area of training between the Ministry of Defence and the Belgian Red Cross, the two partners met each year in order to agree upon an action plan for July 2016-June 2017. This plan of action provides several training activities of IHL, including since 2016, a possible cooperation between the National Society and the medical component of the Defence to implement Resolution 4 of the 32nd International Conference and the Belgian pledge on training of the medical personnel (SP320115). This led to a first cooperation in November 2018, when Belgian Red Cross provided a IHL module, including a section on rights and responsibilities of medical personnel and the challenges in the protection of medical personnel, towards several groups of officers and underofficers of the medical component of the Belgian armed forces.

• Une discussion a été entamée en 2018 avec le Centre de formation continue en Santé et Sciences de la vie de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles afin de former le personnel médical au DIH. Deux possibilités ont été identifiées : i) intervention de la Croix-Rouge de Belgique-Communauté francophone pour donner un séminaire en DIH dans le cadre d’un certificat en gestion multidisciplinaire des situations d’exception ; ii) exploration de la possibilité de développer un module de DIH de 8 h « volant » qui pourrait être suivi par différents publics intéressés et issus du milieu médical (étudiants et professionnels) ou être intégré dans plusieurs certificats existants.

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