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The staff of Poriah Hospital in Tiveria is on Monday, 20 Cheshvan, holding a mass causality training drill. Beginning at 10:00AM, personnel began the drill of a simulated explosion as a result of a terrorist attack in a nearby city with the victims being transported to the emergency room.

Hospital Director Dr. Erez Onn says “Of all the scenarios we prepare for, a mass causality incident (MCI) is the most real and it could occur today or tomorrow and we must be prepared for it comes without warning and we must be capable of functioning in the best possible fashion because ultimately, lives depend on it”.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem/Photos: Media Resource Group)