World News

Air Ambulance Card to Provide Medical Evacuation Worldwide

July 7th, 2009 by Editor | 1 Comment

Air Ambulance Card® provides travelers with prepaid hospital-to-hospital air ambulance service, domestically and abroad.


US: Boy allegedly steals from ambulance as mom treated

July 2nd, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

A boy was arrested over the weekend on charges of stealing from an ambulance while paramedics were treating his mother


Mexico: Criminals blow up ambulance to kill injured rival

June 19th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

A group of armed men blew up an ambulance, apparently with a grenade, to kill a rival who was being transferred from one hospital to another


Australia: Flu ‘may tip pandemic’

June 10th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

A sharp increase in swine flu cases in Australia may mean the infection has become a pandemic, the World Health Organization say


US: Policeman Fights Paramedics With Patient In Ambulance

May 31st, 2009 by Editor | 1 Comment

Oklahoma’s Tulsa World newspaper reports on a fight between a brown-shirted highway patrol officer, who has pulled over an ambulance that was racing a patient to hospital, and the paramedic


Zambia: Scientists identify new lethal virus in Africa

May 31st, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

A paramedic in Lusaka who became sick, was transported to Johannesburg and died. The three others infected were health care workers in Johannesburg


Ireland: HSE orders review of spending in its national ambulance office

May 31st, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has ordered an audit of spending in its national ambulance office following a series of revelations by The Sunday Times


Fiji: Ambulance needed

May 26th, 2009 by Editor | 1 Comment

Vunidawa Hospital in Naitasiri, Fiji needs more vehicles, including an ambulance


Ireland: Calls for ambulance regulation

May 25th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

A private ambulance service provider has called for regulation of the sector “to ensure patient safety”


Improving the quality of healthcare across Europe

May 14th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

Pre-hospital emergency care in the form of ambulances is one of the key factors improving the quality of healthcare across Europe






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