Informes

Following the Order of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev EMERCOM of Russia will render humanitarian aid to Ukraine which suffered as a result of flood. It is planned that two Il-76 planes EMERCOM of Russia deliver 70…

In brief Programme purpose: The programmes supported by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) aim to reduce the number of deaths, injuries and impact from disasters; to reduce deaths, illnesses and impact from diseases and…

KIEV, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- A five-day-long heavy snowfall caused27 weather-related deaths, the Ukrainian Health Ministry's press service said in a statement on Monday. "Eleven people froze to death in Donetsk region, three each in Luhansk and Volyn regions, two…

Preliminary tests reveal no significant changes in the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus based on investigations of samples taken from patients in Ukraine. Analyses are being performed by two WHO influenza collaborating centres as part of the global influenza surveillance network. Preliminary…

Margarita Plotnikova Schools are closed, public events banned and travel restricted for a three-week period after the first death from H1N1 flu was confirmed by the Ministry of Health last week and a state of emergency was announced in several…

According to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the country has now recorded more than 250 000 cases of influenza-like illness, with 235 patients requiring intensive care. As of 2 November, 70 deaths from acute respiratory illness have been…

by Ruth Bücker/ SRI In Ukraine, almost 70 people so far have died from different forms of influenza, more than 191.000 got infected. The proportion of infections with the so-called "swine-flu" contained in these statistics is unclear. What is for…

On 28 October 2009, the Ministry of Health of the Ukraine informed WHO, through its Country Office in Ukraine, about an unusually high level of activity of acute respiratory illness in the western part of the country, associated with…

Text and pictures by Hayarpi Karapetyan, information officer with the Armenian Red Cross Society If you were trying to define "the back of beyond" you'd describe Tismenitsa. It's a tiny village in the west of Ukraine, far from the lights…

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 18, 2008 - For California National Guardsmen, the annual fire season has rendered moot the question of whether natural disasters will strike the state. No longer do they ask "if," but only "when" and "where."On the eve of…