IMPRESS solution presented to emergency professionals and post-graduate students

KEMEA presented to an audience of emergency professionals and post-graduate students the concept of IMPRESS and the relative solution designed for managing and organize information and data in context of multi-casualty incidents and large disasters. The presentation was included in the program of a training event that took place in the Library of the Medical School of Athens the dates 19 and 20/2/2016 and it was linked to the postgraduate program of the Faculty of Medicine, titled “International Medicine / Health-Crisis Management”.

IMPRESS Project Overview

IMPRESS has released the 1st short video presentation of the project's overview.

For more information you can visit the project's website or IMPRESS youtube channel

IMPRESS and “Disaster Medicine and Health-Crisis Management” MSc

In order to strengthen IMPRESS dissemination activity, KEMEA has established close collaboration with the postgraduate course (MSc) on “Disaster Medicine and Health-Crisis Management” (http://crisis.med.uoa.gr) of the Faculty of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.   

Germany train crash: Several killed near Bavarian town of Bad Aibling

The head-on crash happened near Bad Aibling, a spa town about 60km (37 miles) south-east of Munich.
The trains' operator said both trains had partially derailed and were wedged into each other.
Emergency teams, some winched in by helicopter, worked for hours to free casualties from the wreckage.