Staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Libyan Red Crescent evacuate a patient from Sirte last year. Photograph: ICRC

Red Cross Presses For International Action To Protect Medics In War Zones -- The Guardian

From Libya to Afghanistan, medical workers now face threats of death from relatives of patients injured in the fighting

As rebel troops hunting Colonel Muammar Gaddafi besieged the Libyan town of Sirte in the final days of the uprising, Dr Ali Mohamad al-Khamli made a dangerous choice. The 26-year-old Libyan surgeon decided to stay on in the Ibn Sina hospital, knowing that his humanitarian gesture meant he was risking his life. But he did not realise that he might face death at the hands of patients' relatives.

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My Comment: The Libyan doctor is right when he said ....

.... the normal boundaries between care and conflict could simply disappear.

War brings out the worst in mankind, a fact that doctors and medics are only too aware of.