World Red Cross Day is celebrated on May 8 each year to commemorate the birth anniversary of the Red Cross founder, Henry Dunant who was a Swiss businessman.
World Red Cross is almost an omnipresent outfit. Even before the truth of a calamity sinks in, the Red Cross has kick started its network to uplift people in the throes of the disaster.
World Red Cross Day,more correctly called World Red Cross Red Crescent Day, is observed on May 8 every year, to celebrate the birthday of its founder, Jean Henry Dunant.
The Red Cross on Wednesday urged European countries to make life-saving first aid training compulsory, warning that people were too reliant on emergency services.