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October 2015

World Rescue Challenge 2015, the winners - FOTOGALLERY

The World Rescue Challenge 2015 declare 9 new winners for the 17th competition that took place in Lisbon, Portugal. Congratulations from the organizers to all who participated in this edition, that was one of the most hard and difficult in…

2015 Resuscitation Guidelines - Full download here

The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) had published a new release of the Guidelines for Cardiopolmunary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC). The 2015 Guidelines for AHA and ERC are fully…

India: declared dead, but he came back to life

India, 12. Oct. 2015 - A Mumbai homeless man of 50 years old, named Prakash was declared dead by a senior doctor and he was sent to the mortuary. According to the hospital rules, dead patients should be kept on the ward for a pair of hours…

Hospitals and war crimes: a patchy record

LONDON, 7 October 2015 (IRIN) - Médecins Sans Frontières says the bombing of its hospital in Kunduz by a US warplane was a war crime. The four separate enquiries* that have been launched into the incident, which killed 22 people, should…

What happened to Liberia’s Ebola orphans?

MONROVIA, 7 October 2015 (IRIN) - More than 5,900 Liberian children lost one or both parents to Ebola. Some are with a surviving parent, others found loving homes with friends or relatives, but many have been left orphaned on the streets or…