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  • Time to make disaster response training mandatory?

    March 27, 2023 |

    The Business Standard |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Jatrabari

    The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society teaches and trains volunteers in disaster response preparedness, like how to use search and rescue equipment, how to make improvised stretchers and various emergency rescue methods. The organization has a total of 68 units and has trained 13,336 volunteers since its formation in the 1970s.

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  • How this NGO is facilitating emergency delivery response for labour women

    March 15, 2023 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Niger

    Raise Foundation provides transportation to hospitals for women in labor in rural, hard-to-reach areas that lack access to healthcare centers. Through its tricycle ambulance service, the organization has helped over 230 expectant mothers have a safe delivery.

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  • On its own: how local organizations piece together search and rescue operations along Alaska's Arctic coastline

    February 24, 2023 |

    KNBA |

    Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Utqiaġvik, Alaska

    Search and rescue teams in Utqiaġvik and North Slope Borough, Alaska, work together with the coast guard to run rescue operations that budgetary and training restrictions would not allow them to do alone.

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  • Responding to the call - EMS in rural Minnesota

    January 24, 2023 |

    Pioneer PBS |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Elbow Lake, Minnesota

    Emergency medical services in rural Minnesota are dealing with staffing and funding shortages by creating new systems that allow them to work together to respond to calls and are more flexible with where volunteers need to be located.

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  • Chicago Experiments with Crisis Response Units, Grapples With Dilemma: Include Police or Not

    December 22, 2022 |

    MindSite News |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The Crisis Assistance Response and Engagement (CARE) team aims to help people experiencing mental health crises without resorting to force or arrests. The CARE team is a three-person model including a paramedic, clinician, and police officer. Since September 2021, the team has responded to calls about 440 times, none of which have included force or arrests.

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  • The hospital train helping Ukraine's sick and wounded

    September 04, 2022 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Ukraine

    In Ukraine, Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, operates a specialized train service to transport patients from hospitals in battle-torn areas of the country to facilities in safer regions. The train, which is outfitted with beds, generators for medical equipment, and an intensive care unit, has evacuated more than 1,000 people in critical need of treatment so far, including those with war-related injuries as well as chronic health concerns.

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  • Collaborating To Save Women's Lives At Child Birth: A Case Study of Emewe-Opada

    July 17, 2022 |

    Nigerian Pilot News |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Emewe-Opada, Kogi State

    A rural community that struggles to access emergency healthcare is working together to reduce maternal mortality during childbirth by pooling resources, funds, and expertise to provide care at a community-run clinic. Since beginning their efforts, mortality has been reduced by 40%.

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  • Tackling the supply side of the EMS shortage

    May 18, 2022 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Missoula, Montana

    To combat the EMS shortage exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a collaboration between a college and emergency services department is working to train paramedics by providing students access to high-end facilities, instructors, and experiences. Similar programs have popped up around the country, specifically in rural areas where the EMS shortage is even more apparent.

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  • ‘Chipping away at barriers': Nurse practitioners filling primary-care gap

    March 15, 2022 |

    Healthy Debate |

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    Response Location: Canada, Ontario

    Nurse practitioner-led clinics in Ontario, Canada, are open for same-day appointments to care for people without a primary health-care provider and decrease the number of emergency-room patients.

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  • Preventing Second Injury

    March 03, 2022 |

    Eugene Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Gresham, Oregon

    The Trauma Intervention Program (TIP) is deployed by first responders after a traumatic incident, like sudden death. Citizen volunteers are trained in “emotional first aid” and available to provide support 24/7. TIP has 14 affiliates nationwide, one of which responded to 213 calls between June 2019 and February 2020 with 100% reliability.

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