The World Health Organisation (WHO) is calling on governments and healthcare leaders to address persistent threats to the health and safety of health workers and patients. “The COVID-19 pandemic has Continue Reading →
Due to the increase in COVID-19 cases in Israel, Rambam Health Care Campus has opened the largest Covid-19 treatment centre in Israel, in a Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital. Covid-19 patients Continue Reading →
Every year around 34,000 Australians and New Zealanders suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, with only a one-in-ten survival rate. This year’s ‘Restart a Heart Day’ campaign on 16 October will again Continue Reading →
Despite efforts to break the global cycle of panic and neglect seen throughout multiple disease outbreaks, Covid-19 has shown that the world was “woefully under prepared”, according to the UN Continue Reading →
FLIR thermal imaging cameras have been used in a surveillance project to detect and monitor illegal fishing and poaching activities along the northwest coast of Spain. The FLIR PT Series Continue Reading →
A South Australian company has launched a portable isolation hospital for widespread medical emergency hotspots to treat patients with respiratory illnesses during the pandemic. Based in Adelaide, Humanihut’s isolation hospital Continue Reading →
The year’s World Rescue Organisation (WRO) Challenge, which was due to take place in Miami, has been moved back to November 2021, due to the COVID-19 crisis. It means that Continue Reading →
The largest medical exercise ever conducted within the framework of the EU Civil Protection Mechanism – 2018 Modex Romania – took place in Bucharest, Romania in mid-October, to assess the capacities of Continue Reading →
BPS Assessment (the online learning arm of the British Pharmacological Society) is providing support to physicians in Canada, with the introduction of its pioneering learning technology aimed at ensuring safer Continue Reading →
New standards, tactics and protocols will help save more lives with drones, according to the findings of new research, which showed that search and rescue (SAR) teams found simulated victims Continue Reading →