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FREQUENTIS UK appoints Andy Madge as Managing Director
Effective January 1, 2018, former Managing Director (MD) of Defence and Intelligence for Lockheed Martin, Andy Madge, joined the Managing Board of Frequentis UK, taking over responsibility for the UK and Ireland subsidiary of Frequentis AG.…
The emergence of the HRS - Surf Life Rescue: water rescue and safety
Surf Life Rescue is an incredible reality in water rescue and safety. This organization is brand new and is ready to make its mark in the field of EMS.
Tactical Field Care: how should paramedics be protected?
When we talk of tactical medicine, we have to bear in mind that the environment is not as we aspect. Never. Many times, paramedics called to intervene in these scenarios are not ready: they are unfamiliar, untrained, unexposed to the…
Road accidents in Africa: the ambulance service in Namibia
Private and government emergency medical services in Namibia provide cover to very vast areas of the country with many very remote places. With a population of around 2 million and annual tourist arrivals of nearly 1 million per annum it…
National Emergency Center in Albania - Creating an integrated ambulance service from scratch
Albania developed new medical technologies and strategies in order to improve dispatch and emergency management. Among these innovations, we found the activity of the National Emergency Center of Albania (Qendra Kombëtare Urgjencës…
NHS crisis: delays at the A&E. Patients waiting for over an hour to get treatments
2017 - It's the Christmas week and around 5,000 ambulances waited for an hour queueing outside A&E, while NHS guidelines state that a transfer should last around 15 minutes. And speaking of the patients waiting at the emergency dept.…
INDIA - Bloody 2018 beginning because of New Years revelry
Monday, 1 January 2018 - A tragic beginning in Chennai, with 5 people dead and more than 300 injured in road accidents. Police had to fan out to contain and reduce the revelry.
Doctors in hospitals witnessed an increase in trauma cases…
How does HART train its paramedics?
A special team of ambulance paramedics and responders trained to provide life-saving care at major incidents that has dealt with more than 2,300 emergency calls since its creation in 2013. Let's check the training of the Hazardous Area…
Italy: ambulance worker suspected of killing people for money has been arrested
Patients were killed by pulmonary embolism. The rescuers Davide Garofalo has been arrested. He's suspected of 3 episodes. Othter 2 are suspected to be involved in the criminal activity.
PALERMO – The italian police arrested yesterday in…
Have Red Crescent transported protesters as “Fake Wounded” in Palestine?
A few days after a palestinian rock thrower used an ambulance as a shield during a violent demonstration in Ramallah comes footage of a Red Crescent ambulance transporting demonstrators to a violent riot targeting IDF forces, under the…