Yemen — Cyprus — Laos — Indonesia — The Balkans

1965 ◽  
Vol 5 (46) ◽  
pp. 33-36
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Field Hospital ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Medical Teams ◽  
Hospital Equipment ◽  
Operating Unit ◽  
Surgical Operations

Since the beginning of its medical programme on behalf of the victims of the civil war raging in the Yemen, the International Committee of the Red Cross has treated some 14,500 persons. Of these 9100 wounded and sick made their way by their own resources to the field hospital at Uqhd in Royalist territory in Northeast Yemen; a further 900 were admitted to the hospital; 4500 were examined and treated by the mobile medical teams in the fighting areas. We would add that 786 surgical operations have been performed at Uqhd in the complete and air-conditioned “clinobox” operating unit sent as part of the hospital equipment by the ICRC.

Yeman—Malaysia—Viet Nam—Cambodia—Laos—Japan—Philippines—Ceylon—Congo—Cyprus—Brazil—Germany—Czechoslovakia — Poland

1965 ◽  
Vol 5 (48) ◽  
pp. 131-137
Keyword(s):  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Viet Nam ◽  
Field Hospital ◽  
Medical Aid ◽  
Medical Teams

The situation in the Yemen where, in spite of the cease-fire agreement concluded last November, hostilities have broken out again in various areas, is obliging the International Committee of the Red Cross to continue its humanitarian activity which started in 1962 on behalf of the victims of the conflict. Mr. André Rochat, head of the ICRC mission, has returned to the Arabian peninsula after a fortnight's stay in Geneva, during which he examined with the institution's directors methods of continuing its work in the Yemen. It has now been decided that the ICRC will continue, for the time being, to give medical aid to the wounded and sick. It will therefore maintain its field hospital at Uqhd in North Yemen for some time longer, as well as the mobile medical teams working in the interior of the country near the fighting areas.

Wartime Rumors

Out of War ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 74-97
Author(s):  
Mariane C. Ferme
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Critical Events

The circulation of wartime rumors frames the history and experiences of particular conflicts, as well as widely shared popular anxieties that mark turning points and critical events—transitions that define clear “befores” and “afters” in the memories of those who lived through the civil war. Rumors of collusions between humanitarian agencies and the RUF rebels—particularly the multiple “Red Crosses” with their secretive and sometimes conflicting agendas—informed collective imaginaries during the conflict. The chapter also examines historical instances of suspicions surrounding the secretive diplomatic activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross in other wars and the organization’s practices of neutrality and secrecy that fail to quash those suspicions.

Vietnam—Indonesia—India and Pakistan—Yemen

1966 ◽  
Vol 6 (59) ◽  
pp. 97-102
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
National Liberation ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Male Nurse ◽  
National Liberation Front ◽  
Vietnamese Population ◽  
Medical Teams

ICRC medical teams ready to go into action. — With a view to alleviating the suffering caused by the prolongation of the war to the Vietnamese population both in the North and in the South, the International Committee of the Red Cross on December 27, 1965 offered the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Hanoi and Saigon and the National Liberation Front (NLF) to send medical teams to the spot, each consisting of two doctors and one male nurse, all of Swiss nationality. These could, in accordance with the principles of the Red Cross, care for all wounded, sick and disabled, victims of the events.

17 December 1996: Six ICRC delegates assassinated in Chechnya

1997 ◽  
Vol 37 (317) ◽  
pp. 140-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Bugnion
Keyword(s):  
Late Summer ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Field Hospital ◽  
Large Numbers

In the early hours of 17 December 1996, six delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross were assassinated in a brutal attack by gunmen at the ICRC hospital in Novye Atagi, near Grozny.In late summer 1996, the ICRC had decided to open a field hospital in Chechnya because the main hospitals in Grozny had been seriously damaged, thus leaving large numbers of war-wounded without proper care.

International Committee's action in the Yemen

1964 ◽  
Vol 4 (37) ◽  
pp. 181-183
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Field Hospital ◽  
North East

After several months of relative calm, a renewal of fighting has been reported in North East Yemen, a region in which is located the field hospital established by the International Committee of the Red Cross last November.

Vietnam—India and Pakistan

1966 ◽  
Vol 6 (63) ◽  
pp. 304-306
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Male Nurses ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Medical Team ◽  
Central Plateau ◽  
Medical Teams ◽  
Nursing Sisters

Medical teams at work.—Welcomed by the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the medical team of the Swiss Red Cross arrived in Saigon then flew to Kontum on the high central plateau. It consisted of nine persons to whom one more was added a few days later. These ten doctors, male nurses and nursing sisters immediately set to work at the Kontum hospital.

The Red Cross action in the Congo

1962 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 3-17
Keyword(s):  
Executive Director ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
Medical Assistance ◽  
Medical Teams

The International Committee and the League of Red Cross Societies made a point of informing those taking part in the meetings of the International Red Cross in Prague, by means of information sessions and a booklet, of the work undertaken by the Red Cross in the Congo since 1960. This has been dealt with in the International Review on a number of occasions but in a fragmentary manner and we think it would be useful to summarize for our readers some of the successive stages in an operation which has mobilized, and which continues to mobilize, part of the forces of the Red Cross.Here, first of all, are the main points of a speech made by Mr. Gallopin, Executive Director of the ICRC, to which we have added certain details on the interventions which have taken place in recent months, following events in Katanga. Secondly, we are publishing some passages from a booklet edited jointly by the ICRC and the League on medical assistance in the Congo and to finish we are giving a few details on the medal distributed to the members of medical teams to whom the ICRC wished to express its grateful recognition.

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