“Karbala Medical College has concluded its training course on managing mass emergency injuries. The training course on mass emergency injuries, organized by the College of Medicine at the University of Karbala in collaboration with the College of Medicine at the University of Warith Al-Anbiya and the Karbala Health Department, was titled ‘Management of Mass Emergency Injuries.’
It is noted that the course lasted from February 27 to 29, 2024, and was supervised by three international trainers from the World Health Organization Academy from Portugal, Britain, and the Netherlands. More than 45 doctors, both male and female, from several health and academic institutions from the province of Karbala and other provinces participated.
The course aimed to enhance and provide participants with information and the latest scientific developments on how to deal with and manage mass emergency injuries. It emphasized the necessity for hospitals to prepare a plan to be ready for such incidents and alert cases, God forbid, which differ radically from the mechanism of dealing with daily cases. It also included preparing alternative wards and designated places for the many categories expected to attend such incidents, with defining a suitable flow of movement and controlling the exits and entrances. The primary goal is to organize work and reduce the expected loss of lives, which can reach about 20% of the injuries, especially since the province of Karbala witnesses the largest annual mass gathering in the world, which is the Arbaeen pilgrimage, in addition to multiple million-visitor pilgrimages, not to mention hundreds of thousands of visitors every weekend. The province has previously experienced incidents such as terrorist bombings or stampedes, which have led to many deaths. In fact, the organization of the course coincided with the 20th anniversary of the bloody Ashura terrorist bombings in Karbala in 2004.
At the end of the course, the international trainers were honored with letters of appreciation by the Dean of Karbala Medical College for the valuable scientific information they provided at a high level of quality.
The participants presented a series of recommendations, the most prominent of which is that the Iraqi Ministry of Health should adopt these topics, in addition to the need to organize subsequent courses and work on preparing trainers who will assist and train the staff of other hospitals in Iraq, starting from Karbala.”
