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.

In Nigeria — In the Congo — In the Near East — In Vietnam — In Greece — In Poland

1967 ◽  
Vol 7 (80) ◽  
pp. 591-595
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Medical Team ◽  
Medical Teams

ICRC medical teams.—In October the medical team led by Dr. Kaare Sandnaes, surgeon, placed by the Norwegian Red Cross at the disposal of the International Committee of the Red Cross, as part of its medical programme in Nigeria, was installed in the Uromi hospital some 70 miles North of Benin.

In Vietnam — In India and Pakistan — In Rhodesia — In Poland — ICRC President in Portugal — ICRC President in Poland

1966 ◽  
Vol 6 (62) ◽  
pp. 260-264
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Medical Team ◽  
Central Plateau ◽  
Doctors And Nurses

ICRC Relief Actions. —In the different areas in which it is able to take action, the International Committee of the Red Cross is pursuing its efforts on behalf of victims of the Vietnam conflict. It is co-operating closely with the Swiss Red Cross, whose medical team has arrived in Saigon. This consists of a group of eight doctors and nurses who will be working at the Kontum hospital on the high central plateau. Mr. André Durand, delegate general in Asia, has gone to Saigon to take part in its installation.

The International Committee in Algeria

1962 ◽  
Vol 2 (16) ◽  
pp. 362-365 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Surgical Instruments ◽  
The Other ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Medical Team ◽  
Powdered Milk ◽  
New Born ◽  
Concentrated Milk ◽  
French Red Cross

The ICRC actively developed its relief operation in Algeria in June. Acute medical and sanitary problems are facing its delegates, especially in Oran. As reported earlier the ICRC has sent a medical team of three to the Moslem city of Oran, where medicines, surgical instruments and equipment, and dietetic milk for new-born children, are most urgently needed. Following urgent requests by its delegates on the spot the ICRC immediately despatched by air two tons of dietetic powdered milk: Two further shipments were also sent by the French Red Cross, one of eight crates of sugared concentrated milk, the other of one and a half tons of standardised milk.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nigeria—Greece

1967 ◽  
Vol 7 (78) ◽  
pp. 478-479
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
Medical Teams ◽  
Swiss Government

As mentioned in the last number of the International Review, the ICRC has undertaken an action of importance in Nigeria where troubles had broken out. In July 1967, its delegate-general for Africa, Mr. Georg Hoffmann, on going to Lagos observed the urgent need of humanitarian aid for that country. On his indications the International Committee sent two medical teams to the spot to give assistance to the victims of the conflict. They were placed at the ICRC's disposal by the Swiss Red Cross, thanks in particular to a donation from the Swiss Government.

The ICRC and the Yemen conflict

1967 ◽  
Vol 7 (75) ◽  
pp. 317-317
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Medical Team ◽  
Toxic Gas

On June 2, 1967, the International Committee of the Red Cross again received from its delegates in the Yemen reports of bombing by toxic gas.A medical team, led by the head of the ICRC mission in the Yemen, went on May 15 and 16 to a village in the northern part of the country to attempt to give aid to the victims of bombing having taken place some days previously and as a result of which, according to the survivors, many inhabitants had died of asphyxiation.

Relief for Nigeria

1968 ◽  
Vol 8 (82) ◽  
pp. 26-26
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Surgical Equipment ◽  
Medical Teams

Since hostilities broke out in Nigeria in July 1967, the International Committee of the Red Cross has continued to send relief for the civilian and military victims on both sides. Thus, by the end of December the ICRC medical teams working on either side had received more than twenty consignments consisting mostly of medicines and surgical equipment.

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