Beijing medical workers undergo anti-terror training for Olympics
12/5/2008 17:37
About 130,000 people working in medical facilities in the capital will
start a month-long training course this week on coping with possible terrorist
attacks during the Olympics, a newspaper in Beijing reported today.
Training
would focus on emergency response and dealing with nuclear, biological or
chemical terrorist strikes during the games. The courses would be run by experts
from the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, according to The Beijing
News.
In case of terrorist attacks, health workers will play an important
role as they are responsible for emergency first aid, hospital treatment and
epidemic prevention, according to experts.
Further, medical institutions hold
stocks of potentially poisonous chemical, anesthetic and radioactive materials,
as well as highly pathogenic virus samples, which all carry risks of being
employed by terrorists.
The Beijing municipal health bureau would evaluate
the results of the exercise, the report said.
Xinhua
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