Over 3,000 Red Cross volunteers hurried to rescue and relief efforts. This was the most expensive disaster response in Canadian history They are just examples of the kind of support the NGO provides. The Canadian red cross have been very successful throughout history as mentioned before. In 2009 The Canadian Red Cross celebrated its official 100th anniversary. For 100 years the Canadian Red Cross has brought crucial humanitarian assistance and improved the lives of vulnerable people from across our country and around the world.
d.) “Is where people mobilize to help their neighbors across the street, across the country, and across the world in emergencies”. American Red Cross (n. d.) website statistics states, “Each year in communities large and small, victims of some 70,000 disasters turn to neighbors familiar and news, and the more than half a million volunteers and 35,000 employees of the Red Cross for help.” American Red Cross’s (n. d.), “700 locally supporting chapters, helps more than 15 million people gain the skills they need to prepare for and responds to emergencies in their homes, communities, and world.” The American Red Cross (n. d.) is one of the largest ranked volunteer humanitarian organizations in the world lead by volunteers and guided by its Congressional Charter, and Fundamental Principles the International Red Cross, and Red Crescent Movement who response emergency disasters. As a worldwide movement, American Red Cross (n. d.), “offers neutral humanitarian care and grieves to the victims of war. The organization distinguishes itself, by aiding victims of devastating natural disasters,” by providing food, shelter, and hope to millions. The organization’s purpose is to making a positive difference by improving the quality of human life, enhancing self-reliance and concern for others, and helping people avoid, prepare for respond to, and cope with
Red Cross was responsible to look after and provide assistance to the survivors of the Battle of the Gallipoli. And they are for the soldiers who fought in Egypt and those who were suffering from blindness and the effects of war. In 1915, the transport service started, and it is for driving soldiers who has returned on the hospital ships to their homes. By the end of 1916, the total number of cars was 2500 with more than half abroad, providing transport on the battlefields of France, Italy and East
Factors Associated with Hand Hygiene Compliance at a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 34(11), 1146. doi:10.1086/673465 | Background Information | The stated purpose of the article was to identify factors associated with hand hygiene conformity. As stated by Kowitt (2013) hand hygiene is considered the most important measure in preventing hospital-acquired infections which in 2004 related to about 99,000 deaths, affecting 1.7 million patients with a cost of $6.5 billion to the healthcare system. In the abstract, it is stated that these factors were tracked over four years and involved over 161,526 observations of hand hygiene compliance. This initiative was to see if factors are reliable in increasing compliance rates among all categories of hospital workers.
One source claimed, “Each year, approximately 1.5 million people in China are in need of transplants”(77 Egendorf). Another amendments on this topic would be, “1998- Final Rule 963 Fed. Reg.16-296) Governing the operation of the OPTN was issued and published in the Federal Register”(Selected statutory and regulatory history). This amendment says that the government has been governing/ watching over the operation- or in other words, its achievements. Our government has been making amendments for organ donation since 1968, when they addressed their first amendment for organ donation stating, “1968—The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA), A model statute, intended for adoption in every jurisdiction.
Charles Drew: Doctor, Surgeon (1904-1950) Charles Drew was a successful surgeon, teacher, and researcher. He was responsible for the founding of two of the world's largest blood banks. Because of his research into the storage and shipment of blood plasma, he is credited with saving the lives of hundreds during World War II. He was director of the first American Red Cross effort to collect and bank blood on a large scale. In 1942, a year after he was made a diplomat of surgery by the American Board of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University, he became the first African American surgeon to serve as an examiner on the board.
PART 1 Decisions in Paradise Precious Bandages! Wound Care has almost 300 wound care offices in 16 states and provides medical treatment care for more than 2.5 million patients each year (Precious Bandages, 2012). The president and CEO of the corporation have decided to expand its services outside of the United States into smaller countries with a demand for quality healthcare. The first international Precious Bandages! Wound Care office will be opened on the Island of Kava.
Large funding organizations like the United Nations, the World Bank, and regional development banks now recognize that to solve priority health problems requires improvements in behaviors, attitudes, skills, services, products, and infrastructure that together yield lasting benefits long after external support is withdrawn. In this global context, providing both safe drinking water and wastewater sanitation have long been recognized as priorities for the improvement of human health, especially in the prevention of infant and child mortality from diarrheas and dysenteries. An estimated 4 billion cases of diarrheal disease occur worldwide every year, killing an estimated 3 to 4 million people per year, most of them children. While it can be readily argued that a safe water supply plus wastewater sanitation is the most cost-effective public health goal for any given population, in practice, many social, cultural, technical, and economic factors govern whether the design and implementation of these systems will provide the long-term
More than 80% of all vaccine was produced in developing countries (Henderson, 2013). Simultaneously, WHO developed research project and a network of consultants that supported countries in setting up surveillance and containment activities. Timely and reporting the cases gave opportunity to control and detect the cases. Through mass vaccination and involvement of all community members in project, virus outbreaks were easily monitored (Hopkins, 2013) . The success of smallpox eradication was derived from lessons learned from costly failure of malaria campaigns.
Challenges of Organ Donation Organ donation refers to the act in donating human body organs or tissues to save lives of recipients in need of transplant. Organs or tissues can be donated by either a living or a dead person and one has to give his or her consent before the process is done. There are a lot of people worldwide waiting for an organ transplant and I do agree with the statement of the CORE members that there are about 110,000 people waiting for an organ donation, but only about 25,000 transplants each year”. According to UNOS, by March 2014, around 121,600 people in the United States were on the organ waiting list. Each day quit a number of people waiting for organ transplant die because the demand for organs has largely exceeds the number of donors all over the world.