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How can focus on Patient Logistics reduce loss of lives during disasters?

10/10/2013

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Interview with Mr. Robert Sunde, Sales Manager and Co-Developer of LESS (Light Emergency Stretcher Systems) of Norway One versatile patient logistics system for large road traffic accidents or huge natural or complex disasters. Norwegian Company LESS Ltd offers products and solutions for patient logistics and a holistic evacuation strategy. Interview with Mr. Robert Sunde, Sales Manager and Co-Developer of LESS (Light Emergency Stretcher Systems) of Norway. LESS® IS A LEADING PROVIDER of products and solutions for patient logistics and…

Global child deaths down by almost half since 1990

09/13/2013

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In 2012, approximately 6.6 million children worldwide – 18 000 children per day – died before reaching their fifth birthday, according to a new report released today by UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank Group and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division. This is roughly half the number of under-fives who died in 1990, when more than 12 million children died. “This trend is a positive one. Millions of lives have been…