It was also expected to provide guarantees of western European-standard clinical and medical treatment for aid workers who contract the disease while trying to mitigate its impact and to pledge swift evacuation for aid and medical workers.
It said that many soldiers "suffered wounds that would have been fatal in earlier wars but were saved by helmets, body armor, advances in battlefield medicine and swift evacuation to hospitals".
The Musée d'Orsay, in a former train station on the Left Bank near the Seine, closed early to put in place a flood-protection plan that provides for swift evacuation of the museum's Impressionist masterpieces and other works of art in the event of flooding.
While the World Health Organisation and other UN agencies praised the Japanese authorities for ordering the swift evacuation of neighbourhoods close to Fukushima Daiichi, their decision soon after to raise the allowable annual radiation exposure limit from one to 20 millisieverts [mSv] put children in danger, said Dr Paul Dorfman of the Energy Institute at University College, London.
GENEVA, May 6 (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross ICRCC) urged both sides in Syria's civil war on Monday to allow swift evacuation of the dead and wounded, many of them civilians, who often lie abandoned for days or months in intense urban fighting.
"The government's swift evacuation response has saved many from injury and even death," said Lotta Sylwander, UNICEF Philippines Representative.
In New Orleans, disaster is never far away, and government incompetence cannot be allowed to undermine a swift, sure evacuation.
Swift and efficient evacuations were jeopardized by the sheer number of people trying to escape confined, crowded spaces.
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The authorities organised the swift and efficient evacuation of tens of thousands of tourists and locals.
