25 06 2020 | 2020, Reunion, Health Risks, PIROI, Show, Training
At the request of Reunion’s Department for Youth, Sports and Social Cohesion, PIROI recently trained staff who work with under-18s and their instructors about COVID-19 and how to protect against it. Ever since the COVID-19 crisis started, protection measures and...
18 05 2020 | 2020, Reunion, Health Risks, PIROI, Show
As part of its auxiliary role to the public authorities and in support of populations, especially the most vulnerable, the French Red Cross has brought together all those who want to take action to respond to the COVID-19 crisis. Prevention, support for health...
21 01 2020 | 2019, Reunion, Health Risks, Indian Ocean Region, PIROI, Show
Between January 2018 and August 2019, a major outbreak of dengue fever hit Reunion Island, with almost 25,000 confirmed cases, and 18 deaths [source: Santé publique France]. To limit its effects, PIROI implemented a dengue awareness programme. Its purpose was to raise...
5 10 2017 | 2017, Health Risks, Madagascar, Malagasy Red Cross
The 2017-2018 plague outbreak in Madagascar started late August, it being established that the first death – concerning a passenger travelling from Ankazobe to Toamasina in a ‘taxi-brousse’ public service vehicle – occurred on 27th August 2017. This case...
30 12 2016 | 2016, Health Risks, International, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
The Regional Disaster Response Team (RDRT) training course specialising in emergency healthcare came to an end on Tuesday 6th December. For eight days, 25 participants from the Indian Ocean Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies (Union of Comoros, Madagascar,...
19 07 2016 | 2016, Health Risks, Seychelles, Seychelles Red Cross
PIROI deployed a regional disaster response agent to assist the Red Cross Society of the Seychelles in fighting the outbreak of dengue fever. The epidemic first broke out in early 2016, and by the end of June had already affected 253 people nationwide. PIROI deployed...
