Emergency Response Africa

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How To Manage A Heart Attack Case

Heart attacks can come unannounced. While it is agonizing for the one suffering from it, the victim’s loved ones also get affected.
Heart attacks occur when a part of the heart does not get enough blood. When an important artery experiences blockage due to bad cholesterol, cardiac history or any other reason – the blood fails to reach the heart. This results in an individual experiencing a heart attack.

How to Manage Christmas Emergencies

Christmas is a peak time for increased stress and accidents. Decorations, fires, new toys, visitors, cooking and houses packed with over-excited children and extra animals present a lot of potential hazards. Factor in the additional seasonal stress and alcohol and you can start to understand how people fall foul of the festive season.

How to care for your Aging Parent – Long Distance Emergency Care

Aging is a fact of life and it affects all families. As adult children, when imagining our parents as seniors, we may not fully comprehend the extent to which their aging will affect them or how it will affect us. Indeed, if they are already seniors and still in good health and living independently we may not feel any dramatic changes or concerns. However, the time does come when effects of aging become more evident and long-term care may be needed.

Why and how do buildings collapse in lagos (Emergency Response Guidelines for Building Collapse)

The rate at which some of the structures, some under construction, have been failing has become a great source of concern. Year-in year-out, building collapse is now a recurring phenomenon in Lagos, resulting in loss of lives and billions of Naira in investments. The collapse, on Monday, of a 21-storey building in Ikoyi, Lagos, followed by the collapse of another storey building in the Lekki-Ajah axis of the state the next day brought to the fore, again, the recurring, but the disturbing issue of building and structural collapse in the country.