 The responsibilities of health care providers in times of conflict are basically the same as in time of peace. The problem of the conflict situation is that it is much more difficult sometimes to implement. Health care providers can be confronted to dilemmas. I usually say that health care personnel have the right not to be neutral, they have the right to be part of the government or part of the opposition, but the day they have to treat patients they have to be impartial. Authorities have the duty to give the possibility to health care providers to work safely and independently according to medical ethics principles. For instance, in some countries bullet injuries have to be declared to the Ministry of Public Health. And this is fine as long as the health care provider is sure that the patient is not going to be taken out of the hospital just because he's been declared with a bullet injury. So this means that confidentiality becomes an important and essential part of the work of health care providers in times of conflict or any other emergency. Patients are not protected from the law as such in their country, but they need to be treated properly. Well, I think sometimes health care personnel need to know about their rights because they need to be able to challenge their authorities. They need to challenge the direction of the hospital. They need to challenge also families, armed groups to tell them if you wish us to achieve what we have to achieve, then you need to make sure that we can work independently and impartially. Doctors, nurses, anyone working in a hospital needs to be able to know and to make it known that any patient arriving to the hospital has the right to health and any health care personnel working in a hospital has the right to work properly.