The Macau Red Cross (, ) is a branch of the
Red Cross
The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a Humanitarianism, humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteering, volunteers, members, and staff worldwide. It was founded to protect human life and health, to ...
in
Macau
Macau or Macao is a special administrative regions of China, special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). With a population of about people and a land area of , it is the most List of countries and dependencies by p ...
. The headquarters is in the China Civil Plaza () in
Sé. It also has a Medical Transfer Centre () in the Edificio Industrial Hap Si () in ,
Nossa Senhora de Fátima.
It is the humanitarian organisation in the territory that has existed for the longest time.
The previous head office is in
São Lourenço.
History
The 's presence in Macau began in 1920,
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/ref> and became established as a delegation in 1943. A chapter of the book ''The Red Cross Movement'' described the Macau Red Cross as "simultaneously, a local creation, a delegation integrated into a national/colonial context, an inter-imperial structure and part of a transnational institution with global reach." The Macau Red Cross left the Portuguese organisation and joined the Red Cross Society of China effective 20 December 1999.[
It supports a school in , Shiqian County, Tongren, ]Guizhou
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: Melco Crown-Macau Red Cross Bo-Ai Primary School (). It first opened in 1964 and had its current facility open in 2017.
Ambulance Fleet
Macau Red Cross operates a fleet of ambulances (MB Sprinter vans, Toyota Coaster minibuses, Toyota Hiace van) to supplement the fire service's amubulance fleet.Care ambulance
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Gallery
File:澳門紅十字會救護車輛.jpg, Red Cross ambulance fleet
File:Ambulance of Macau Red Cross.jpg, Red Cross Hiace van
File:Macau Red Cross Ambulance Minibus.JPG, Red Cross Coaster minibus
File:澳門紅十字會救護巴士.jpg, Red Cross Coaster minibus
File:澳門紅十字會黑沙環行動站.jpg, Red Cross Areia Preta ambulance depot
References
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Notes
External links
Macau Red Cross
Red Cross and Red Crescent national societies
1920 establishments in China
Medical and health organizations based in Macau
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