Insecurity Insight monitors attacks on health care in Pakistan, and based on its data, the Pakistan chapter of the 2025 Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) report Care in the Crosshairs identified 32 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in Pakistan in 2025. Polio vaccination campaigns came under attack ten times, while 12 health workers were kidnapped and six were killed. Health facilities were damaged on at least seven occasions.

In 2025, the pattern of violence against health care in Pakistan shifted: incidents damaging health care facilities increased sharply, while attacks on polio vaccination campaigns and their security escorts and health worker killings continued, but at lower levels than in previous years, representing a smaller proportion of overall incidents. The overall number of incidents in which health workers were kidnapped remained similar to that in 2024; however, their proportion of incidents and the number of victims increased.

Published every two weeks, Insecurity Insight’s Attacks on Health Care New Brief tracks global threats and violence as well as protests and other events affecting the delivery of and access to health care. Explore our interactive map to see where incidents happened.