emergency

Yemen, Sana’a 10 January 2016 An MSF supported hospital has been hit in Northern Yemen causing at least four deaths, injuring ten people and leading to the collapse of several buildings within the medical facility. Three of the injured are…

N2 highway crash claims six lives Last night paramedics from the KZN Department of Health’s Emergency Medical Services, responded to a collision on the N2 highway at Umkomaas, between a car and a truck which had been carrying wooden logs.…

Climate risks around the world: extreme tornadoes that struck the United States over Christmas, freak snowfalls in Mexico and heavy flooding in South America and the United Kingdom, Ms Margareta Wahlström, head of the UN Office for Disaster…

This picture is now viral, and the bystander who cought it write a really touching post about this precious moment of a firefighter reading a tales.

A third of emergency vehicles equipped to deal with major contaminations in England, including "dirty bombs", are to be withdrawn on 31 December, according to a leaked document.

In 2013, car accidents resulted in approximately 8,500 infants requiring hospitalization or emergency department visits and 135 infant deaths.

Typhoon Melor carved through the central Philippines on Tuesday bringing heavy rain and strong winds that left millions without power and at least three people dead, officials said. One person died of hypothermia while two others drowned in…

MANILA, Philippines. About 725,000 people fled their homes and communities braced for coastal floods of up to 13 feet as Typhoon Melor slammed into the eastern Philippines on Monday, officials said. The government's weather bureau said the…

Four people have been killed in a medevac helicopter crash in Kern County, California. Just before 7 p.m. local time Thursday, the Skylife H-4 helicopter left Porterville Airport with a critical patient who was being transferred to San…

Although many hospitals are making strides to reduce the holding of admitted patients in the emergency department, a practice known as “boarding,” many of the most crowded emergency departments in the United States still have not adopted…