This year, we mark the World Red Cross and Red Crescent day during unprecedented circumstances. Around the world, health care workers and volunteers have mobilized to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health systems in many countries are already stretched with limited health care financing and resources due to the coping of endemic diseases, natural disasters and protracted conflicts. As the COVID-19 pandemic moves to resource-poor and conflict-affected countries, it poses an unprecedented challenge to the increase in the burden on already strained health systems and its impact on the most vulnerable populations can be catastrophic.
