Severely injured patients waited hours in HSC emergency entrance hallway due to absence of beds inside

Twelve people on stretchers, including a stroke patient with a bleeding brain and a trauma patient transported by helicopter, were lined up in the entrance hallway at Manitoba’s largest emergency department on Sunday evening because no beds were available inside, a physician at the hospital said.

Polio declared a disaster emergency in New York after more poliovirus found

Enlarge / Transmission electron micrograph of poliovirus type 1. (credit: Getty | BSIP) New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a “state disaster emergency” Friday after poliovirus was detected in wastewater from a fourth county, indicating that the dangerous virus continues to spread, potentially in areas with abysmal vaccination rates. Today’s emergency declaration aims to boost […]

What’s Covered by Credit Card Travel Accident and Emergency Evacuation Insurance?

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Microsoft issues emergency update to fix critical IE flaw under active exploit

Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft has issued an emergency update that fixes a critical Internet Explorer vulnerability that attackers are actively exploiting on the Internet. The memory-corruption flaw allows attackers to remotely execute malicious code when computers use IE to visit a booby-trapped website, Microsoft said Wednesday. Indexed as CVE-2018-8653, the flaw affects all supported versions […]

1.5mn children need emergency aid in C. African Republic ‘neglected’ crisis – UNICEF

Two-thirds of all children in Central African Republic need emergency aid, the UN said Friday, citing a worsening “neglected” crisis in the impoverished country. Some 1.5 million children nationwide are in need of humanitarian assistance, an increase of 300,000 compared with 2016, the UN children’s agency UNICEF said in a report. The agency’s top representative […]

10 killed, 50 injured in gas explosion in Crimea college – emergency services

Published time: 17 Oct, 2018 09:43 Edited time: 17 Oct, 2018 10:10 A powerful gas explosion has rocked a college in the Crimean city of Kerch, killing at least ten people and injuring 40. Emergency services and rescue vehicles are on the scene. Over 20 people have been taken to hospital so far. A possible […]

Soyuz spacecraft launch fails, astronauts set for emergency landing

NASA is reporting that there has been an “issue with the booster” on the Soyuz craft that’s currently taking astronauts Nick Hague of NASA and cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin to the International Space Station (ISS). Details are sparse at the moment, but it appears that the capsule is making a “ballistic descent,” descending at a high […]

Storm Michael: Midterm campaigning in disarray after Florida governor declares state of emergency

Florida has declared a state of emergency in anticipation of Tropical Storm Michael which is due to hit the US coast next week. The cyclone has already affected some of the campaign trails of the 2018 midterm election hopefuls. On Sunday, Republican Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency in 26 counties in the […]