October 2015

Islamabad/Kabul/Geneva (ICRC-IFRC) – Afghan and Pakistan Red Crescent Societies are helping people affected by Monday's M7.5 earthquake whose epicentre was in Jerm district in the Afghan province of Badakhshan close to the border with…

Viet Nam Red Cross Society celebrates International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction and launches the World Disasters Report 2015 By Ly Nguyen, IFRC It was a Tuesday morning. Normally Truong Thanh Truat, from the Hoang Tin commune in Hoang…

On October 16th the European Resuscitation Council will promote an international campaign to show in any European State the new CPR Guidelines. The new CPR protocol is based on 3 simply steps: CALL Make sure it is safe to approach.…

Manila, Philippines. Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima announced today that the PhP 1 billion People’s Survival Fund (PSF) will soon be ready to be accessed by local government units and local/community organizations for their climate change…

There are 2800 no-go zones in Scotland, due to safety fears. This is the number of addresses where NHS ambulances can't go without police support.

Getting nurse staffing levels wrong in hospitals is linked to excess mortality and poor patient experiences but establishing the safe levels in the emergency department (ED) is challenging because patient demand is so variable.

The most exiting ambulance in the world is the Motorcycle ambulances. This is a a type of emergency vehicle which carries a solo paramedic or first responder to a patient. Sometimes the motorcycle could be a sidecar, but usually in Europe…

Donauwörth, 19 October 2015 – Today, the federal-state police of Baden-Württemberg took delivery of the very first H145 in police configuration at Airbus Helicopters’ industrial site in Donauwörth. The aircraft is the first of an order of…

Greenwich, London - Around 1200 people were evacuated from the 02 Arena on Millennium Way, Greenwich earlier today following a fire in a restaurant inside the arena complex. Twenty-one firefighters and officers quickly tackled the blaze…