Non-governmental organizations that deliver health care and medical relief in crises, conflict zones and under-served regions, such as an emergency medical relief charity or a humanitarian medical corps, each entry recording its founding, its mandate and the regions it typically operates in. This subcategory excludes a government health ministry or an intergovernmental health agency, which belong under their own subcategories.
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1. Wikipedia: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
WikipediaInternational Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Founding sectionQuote, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Founding section
On 5 May 1919, following the First World War, representatives from the National Red Cross Societies of the Allied Powers (United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan, and United States) came together in Paris to establish the League of Red Cross Societies (LORCS)...
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