(Israel21c) Karin Kloosterman - At the same time as an Israeli emergency response team was planning a program to train Chilean professionals in how to handle mass casualty situations, a major earthquake hit the country in February, killing hundreds. In June, an Israeli team of six professionals traveled to Santiago to analyze the aftermath of the disaster and hold a five-day workshop to train more than 300 emergency response personnel from Chile and Paraguay in how to deal with mass casualty events.
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