Medair Since 1991, Medair has been in South Sudan responding to natural disasters, providing health care services and strengthening local communities through methods such as establishing harvesting systems.
Weill Cornell Medicine physicians provide clinical training and bedside teaching, in addition to responding to natural disasters and public health emergencies such as earthquakes, hurricanes, cholera epidemics, and anthrax outbreaks.
When the people in charge of responding to natural disasters ignore weather service bulletins, later claiming to have relied on local newspapers to tell them whether a city is flooded, bad things are going to happen.
There are many federal, state, and local government agencies and nongovernmental organizations involved in planning for and responding to natural disasters in the United States.
In recent years, their role has expanded from defending national territory to providing emergency backup to United States troops stationed in Japan, taking part in overseas peacekeeping operations, and responding to natural disasters like the devastating 1995 earthquake in Kobe.
Already your company's role in promoting democratic revolutions and responding to natural disasters has been hailed as heroic, while during the same, short time period, NGOs have vilified you for complying with government orders to filter content and share user data.
Even before Hurricane Harvey barreled into Texas and Louisiana, the agency was already responding to natural disasters in 20 states, from wildfires in the West to severe storms in Michigan and West Virginia.
The emphasis on amputations and other acute injuries reflects, in part, the mandates of some organizations responding to natural disasters to treat only 'disaster-related' injuries (35).
In the past, the agency's focus has been on responding to natural disasters.
