The IDF Home Front Command is preparing all hospitals in Israel for a range of
security threats, including large-scale missile attacks and chemical attacks, a
senior military source told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.
The
preparations have been planned three years in advance, and bear no relation to
current events or recent threat assessments. Exercises include training hospital
staff to deal with conventional missile attacks, mass-casualty incidents and
“mega-mass casualty incidents,” – involving 1,000 or more injuries.
“We
train a lot for chemical weapons,” a Home Front Command source said. “This is
our business, and only ours. There is no room for error.”
The drills form
the only basis for dealing with a chemical weapon attack, the source stressed,
“since we have no experience with this.”
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