Virginia Henderson was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1897. She was the fifth of eight children of Lucy Minor Abbot and Daniel B. Henderson. At age four, she moved to Virginia, and began her schooling at Bellevue, a preparatory school…
MEDEVAC and United Nations Humanitarian Missions saved: the absolute value of caring for people prevailed even in the state of tension involving Nairobi (Kenya) and Mogadishu (Somalia)
The origins of Helicopter rescue: It’s probably considered the most important emergency and rescue service for high risk situations because it makes possible for the rescuers to reach quickly in all security extremely dangerous places that…
Labrador virus-sniffing experiment in South Africa. Experiment starts at Johannesburg airport with dogs trained to detect a positive coronavirus by sweat particles
On the night of 26 April, the history of mankind changed, and with it the view of nuclear power: at 1:23 a.m. the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was to suffer a level seven disaster on the INES scale, the highest level in the world
Assaults on ambulance staff and violence against ambulance drivers are not a phenomenon of a single country but, in a sense, an epidemic within an epidemic. In fact, it has been going on for many years
There have been 4600 road accidents caused by drug or alcohol abuse in the last period, with 1331 people injured and 26 road victims. A figure that is on the rise, according to police surveys.