emergency

Strategic directions: strengthening national platforms for disaster reduction - with experience in Kyrgyz Republic The strategic directions on strengthening National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction are intended for use by all…

First aid volunteers are often the difference between life and death in most of the cases. Kay Taylor speaks to a dedicated volunteer who is first on the scene in life-threatening emergencies

As hunger bites harder across the country, about 2,000 hungry households that were severely affected by last year’s floods now have a reason to smile after Malawi Red Cross started supporting them with money for food.

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third of emergency vehicles equipped to deal with major contaminations in England, including "dirty bombs", are to be withdrawn on 31 December, according to a leaked document.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