He said people put emergency services under extreme pressure by visiting emergency departments, calling out of hours medical services and GPs.
Currently a severe "space weather" event would most likely be considered an "emergency" under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and require help from the armed forces.
Associated director of operations and medicine Terece Walters said that put emergency staff under more pressure which could lead to delays in treatment for other patients.
As in Britain, the New Zealand government had attempted to control the influx of new psychoactive substances by imposing emergency restrictions under existing misuse of drugs legislation.
And I have today directed the appropriate people in our federal government to expedite the analysis we're required to do about the effects of the recent heat wave on the need for emergency assistance under this program.
And the Fed would also have the power to lend to a swaps entity under emergency circumstances.
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By that July the hospital was under emergency measures and the trust employed an additional 60 midwives.
By late afternoon, major carriers, including WorldCom, were reporting that operations were running more smoothly, albeit under emergency procedures.
For the Commission, Ms Damanaki called on the Egyptian authorities to lift emergency law - under which detention without trial is allowed - as soon as possible.
Sri Lanka has been under emergency rule on-and-off for nearly three decades, most recently since the assassination in August 2005 of Lakshman Kadirgamar, an ethnic-Tamil foreign minister.
At the trust's Royal Lancaster Hospital, a mobile operating theatre has been opened to provide extra emergency patient beds and a refurbishment of the emergency department is under way.
"It is the beginning of a homeland defense that is going to last, " said the president, who added that the Federal Emergency Management Agency under Director Joe Allbaugh would oversee the first-responder programs.
And when you take that away and that has happened to us on two different occasions, not so much with city government but within our school system, and our school system has been under emergency managers for the last three years almost four years now, and a lot of people don't feel that that's the democratic process working as it should work.
In October 2008, under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, Congress and the Treasury Department took the first steps to limit compensation at companies receiving investments under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
In-patient paediatrics, obstetrics, accident and emergency services are all under threat at the Kettering hospital.
St Helier could see the closure of its accident and emergency and maternity wards under a separate review of hospital services in south London.
An MSF study at the camp last November revealed a critical nutrition situation, with mortality rates above the emergency threshold for children under two years old.
That determination defies logic and the law, but was a necessary fiction for the agency to continue operating under limited emergency powers that such a finding invokes.
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If they then wait until their condition becomes an emergency for which, under the new law, they would be covered, then the Spanish state would pick up the tab.
Even before the latest influx of refugees, the nutritional situation was critical, with a study by Doctors Without Borders in November revealing mortality rates above the emergency threshold for children under 2 years old.
Oleg Vyugin, a deputy finance minister, says the central bank could scrape together enough staff to run three banks under an emergency administration, but not enough to handle the 15 big ones needing most urgent help.
On a cold and wet night, emergency teams have been toiling under floodlights to reach survivors, as relatives keep vigil outside.
Meanwhile, high-tech patient simulators, such as those at Brigham and Women's Hospital, are enabling doctors and nurses to hone their technical skills for difficult emergency procedures and boost teamwork under pressure.
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The funding comes as a grant under the Project School Emergency Response to Violence program.
Egypt has been under some form of emergency law for all but eight of the years since 1952.
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Despite this, education is not currently recognized as a humanitarian priority, and is under-financed in emergency and post-conflict situations.
Although technically illegal under Syria's emergency law, the authorities tolerated the new forums until February, when most were effectively suspended.
More than a dozen counties in Oklahoma were under a state of emergency declared by Ms. Fallin on Sunday due to storms over the weekend.
More than a dozen counties in Oklahoma were under a state of emergency declared by Gov. Mary Fallin on Sunday due to storms over the weekend.
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