Monthly Archives

July 2014

The United Nations Volunteers Program

UNV is inspired by the conviction that volunteerism is a powerful means of engaging people in tackling development challenges worldwide. Everyone can contribute their time, skills and knowledge through volunteer action, and their combined…

Wildlife VET save an enslaved elephant in India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou2NrtpxWTU Last week, a team of vets and wildlife experts, joined by 20 forestry department officers and six policemen seize an old elephant from his suffering in the Uttar Pradesh area of India, Mailonline…

EMCrit Blog: the diagnosis of c-spine injuries

In the news podcast episode, EMCrit Blog discussed the diagnosis of c-spine injuries. We argue that we should not send patients to imaging unless we have used the NEXUS rule and then added the Canadian C-spine Rule to the sequence.…

Typhoon Florita could become a super typhoon today

The typhoon Florita - international name Neoguri - could enhance rains in some part of philippinian region, as Luzon and Visayas, according to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA)…

Indian nurses are safe and free in Mosul, Kerala CM says

The 46 nurses who had been forced by Sunni militants to move out of the hospital they were hiding are being taken to Mosul city, officials confirmed. All 46 Indian nurses abducted by suspected ISIS militants from Tikrit in strife-torn Iraq…

Palau: Squatter colony burning after six explosions

KOTA KINABALU: At least six explosions were heard as a fire destroyed more than 30 houses, leaving some 300 people homeless at the notorious Kampung Pondo in Pulau Gaya near here. There were no reports of casualties in the fire that was…

7 Indonesian workers killed by landslip in Papau

A disaster occurred in the mining region of the Baya Biru Paniai on July 1 at 11 pm. 7 mine workers die in a landslide and other 6 are trapped under the involved building, Papua Police Chief Insp. Gen. Tito Karnavian told in a press…