IRRC No. 276

5. The Red Cross, the Red Crescent and the media: Salvadorean Red Cross Society: Information services and the media: an ongoing dialogue

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Abstract
The Salvadorean Red Cross Society was founded on 13 March 1985. It has been in existence for 105 years, and so has a long record of service in the emergency situations that have arisen in El Salvador. These range from everyday emergencies in which it gives first aid, provides an ambulance service for sick and injured persons and processes and distributes blood, to major national disasters, especially earthquakes, and the internal conflict that has now been raging for more than then years.

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