Health and Safety

IRELAND - Ambulance crews declared a strike on this month after a dispute over union membership. According to the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) its ambulance personnel members - including paramedics, advanced paramedics and emergency…

Avalanches are one of the major causes of death on mountains, this is why their dangerousness have given rise to collective forms of risk management in the Alps. On Thursday, the Paris-based United Nations Education, Scientific and…

28 November 2018 -  From the World Health Organization arrives the alarm that malaria cases reached the peak in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where health workers are also battling an Ebola outbreak. This is an issue is carrying a…

Firefighters, police, emergency medical services, search and rescue crews, and lifeguards, responding to a wide range of emergencies every day, are all too often hindered by a lack of critical information. Video and sensor data provided by…

How to operate with a fast and complete medical service in natural and protected areas? What kind of vehicle do you need to find and rescue a patient in this kind of location? The "motomedica" project by Pasquale Perillo is a specific kind…

In Emergency Departments around the world, intubation is performed and it is a critical procedure because of its circumstances and of course, because of the gravity of the patient. ED intubations typically entail rapid sequence intubation,…

Cox’s Bazar – After much time of projecting and funds,  the Rohingya refugee camp obtained a new 33-room in-patient hospital instead of the previous bamboo "cottage"  as medical post. The hospital in Madhurchara, Ukhiya, is the first to…

Bangladesh - Rohingya who are escaping massive persecutions and violence of Myanmar saw the evolution of their care from IOM (International Organization for Migration). They provided temporary accomodation for refugees in emergency…

Shortage of food,  no shelters, water is scarse and not clean, children close to famine. This is Yemen. The International Commetee of Red Cross reports that the conflict inside the state caused many people flee and provoked the world’s…

After the two disasters in Palu and Lombok this year, the current disaster risk governance of Indonesia had been tested. As resut thousands of people died and many others displaced. So the government decided to achieve a better disaster…