July 2023

Growth of National Societies and Red Cross movement

By rjoshimgims July 30, 2023Health care organizations7 Comments

Index Home Red Cross Movement started in 1863, and the very next year invited delegates from 12 nations had their first conference in Geneva. The founding members agreed that different countries,…

Red Cross philately and the two world wars

By rjoshimgims July 26, 2023Health care organizations7 Comments

Index Home Postage stamps and Red Cross share a close relationship. As early as 1870s, postal administrations in France, Germany and Switzerland exempted postage on letters posted by Red Cross organisations…

Origin of the Red Cross movement

By rjoshimgims July 22, 2023Health care organizations9 Comments

Index Home Nineteenth century Europe was a war theatre. These conflicts started with Napoleonic wars (1803-1815), and went on with revolution and conflicts of Italian and Prussian unification (1848-1866). Weapons, industries,…

Medical services in the sky

By rjoshimgims July 6, 2023Health concepts, Tools in Health8 Comments

Index Home During First World War we began to use airplanes, both as a weapon and as a medical service. In 1917, a British plane evacuated a solder with a broken…

How to make our roads healthy and safe ?

By rjoshimgims July 1, 2023Health concepts6 Comments

Index Home About 1.3 million humans die, and another 50 million suffer injuries in road accidents every year. These numbers have remained almost unchanged in the last twenty years. Most deaths…