Emergency
Nearly 300,000 Bangladeshis were taking refuge in emergency shelters on Saturday (Aug 24) from floods that inundated vast areas of the low-lying South Asian country, disaster officials said. The floods were triggered by heavy monsoon rains and hav..
Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) aims to reduce the volume of non-emergency 999 calls to the Ambulance Service. An average of 20% calls received through the National Command Centre requesting for ambulance services are minor cases, said Assistant E..
Matar, the Qatar Company for Airports Operation and Management, announced it will be conducting its sixth full-scale emergency exercise at Hamad International Airport (DOH), on January 8 (Monday) from 5pm to 8pm. The simulation is part of Matar..
beIN SPORTS, the leading sports broadcaster in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), will use the power and reach of all its platforms – TV and digital channels – to appeal to its millions of viewers and followers to support emergency ..
A QATAR Airways flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Scotland after an "incident on board". The aircraft was travelling from Los Angeles to Doha, Qatar, when the alarm was raised. Flight QR740 departed shortly before midn..
Medical services unable to resuscitate child on flight from Istanbul to New York An 11-year-old child died after losing consciousness on board a Turkish Airlines flight en route to New York from Istanbul, with medical services unable to resuscitat..
Asiana Airlines will no longer sell tickets for certain emergency exit seats of its Airbus A321-200 aircraft, the airline said Sunday, following a recent incident in which a man allegedly opened a jetliner door during a flight. The seats are numbe..
Monkeypox is no longer a global public health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, almost a year after the threat was raised. The virus is still around and further waves and outbreaks could continue, but the highest level of al..
The World Health Organization ended the global emergency status for COVID-19 on Friday more than three years after its original declaration, and said countries should now manage the virus that killed more than 6.9 million people along with other infe..
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