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In response, the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center was converted into a temporary hospital on March 26, 2022. [18] By March 27, just before Shanghai started area-separated testing, a total of 16,013 people had tested positive for COVID-19.
In early 2021 the Festival for that year was cancelled entirely. It was then planned for the next festival to be held on 18–20 February 2022, its 25th anniversary, [94] but in November 2021 the 2022 festival was also cancelled due to the planning group being retasked for three months to pandemic response. [95]
Prior to 2004, Pakistan did not have an organised emergency medical system. [2] In that year, Rescue 1122 was launched as a professional pre-hospital emergency service, and it has managed to achieve an average response time of seven minutes, comparable to that of developed nations.
Emergency nurses and physicians care for a trauma patient. Emergency nursing is a specialty within the field of professional nursing focusing on the care of patients who require prompt medical attention to avoid long-term disability or death.
A tornado emergency was issued in the late-night hours of Memorial Day on May 27, 2019 for Montgomery County, Ohio, including the cities of Dayton, Ohio, and Trotwood, Ohio. The tornado was rated EF4. A tornado emergency was issued in the night hours of May 2, 2021, in Tupelo, Mississippi. [12]
A public health crisis in and around the city of Jackson, Mississippi, began in late August 2022 after the Pearl River flooded due to severe storms in the state. [1] The flooding caused the O. B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, the city's largest water treatment facility, which was already running on backup pumps due to failures the month prior, to stop the treatment of drinking water indefinitely.
A public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC / f eɪ k / FAYK) is a formal declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) of "an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease and to potentially require a coordinated international response", formulated when a situation arises that is ...
7 February – Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces what he describes as "tough targets" to reduce the record NHS waiting lists in England. [36]8 February – Health Secretary Sajid Javid announces plans to help reduce NHS waiting lists in England, but warns numbers will not begin to fall until 2024, and are likely to increase in the short term.