A few hours after the catastrophe, the EU provided EUR 3 million of aid for the initial relief operations.

ships which do not carry a medical doctor shall be required to have either at least one seafarer on board who is in charge of medical care and administering medicine as part of their regular duties or at least one seafarer on board competent to provide medical first aid; persons in charge of medical care on board who are not medical doctors shall have satisfactorily completed training in medical care that meets the requirements of the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978, as amended (STCW); seafarers designated to provide medical first aid shall have satisfactorily comple ...[+++]ted training in medical first aid that meets the requirements of STCW; national laws or regulations shall specify the level of approved training required taking into account, inter alia, such factors as the duration, nature and conditions of the voyage and the number of seafarers on board; and

2. Welcomes the support given by the international community to the relief efforts for the victims of the earthquake and the decision of the United States Treasury Department, under the instructions of the United States President, to ease restrictions to assist humanitarian relief activities for earthquake victims in Iran;

At Modane, the destination of the first people leaving via the Fréjus Pass, of the 82 Kurds welcomed with such ceremony, 40 have vanished into thin air.

12.3. First-aid rooms must be fitted with essential first-aid installations and equipment and be easily accessible to stretchers.

7.FIRE-FIGHTING, ALARM AND ALERTING EQUIPMENT 7.1.Emergency fire-fighting equipment 7.1.1.Emergency fire-fighting equipment is intended to fight the outbreak of a fire and must be distinguished from more powerful fire-fighting equipment intended to control an established fire and generally used by fire-fighting experts.