Tag Archive for Soroka Medical Center

| January 15, 2016
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Int’l experts from 30 countries in Israel to learn ‘disaster response’ procedures

 

In coordination with the Soroka Medical Center, the Health Ministry’s Emergency Dept, the IDF Home Front Command, & the IDF Medical Corps, hundreds of int’l health professionals visit Israeli hospitals to learn how to effectively deal with a natural disaster or massive terror attack.

By Michael Bachner, TPS

 

Hundreds of professionals from 30 countries participated in a large-scale exercise at the Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva this week, simulating the evacuation of dozens of casualties following a massive terrorist attack.

International exercise in Soroka on dealing with disasters – Photo: Shmaryahu Spero, TPS

Dozens of simulated casualties with various degrees of injury were evacuated to Soroka in scenarios mimicking a terror attack in a populated urban facility and leakage of hazardous materials from a train car. Continue Reading »

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| October 22, 2014
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2 IDF soldiers wounded on Israel-Egypt border

Large Israeli forces sweeping the area to eliminate possible terrorist infiltration from the Sinai.

Unrelated: 5 IDF soldiers injured when their jeep flips over nearby.

 

Two soldiers were wounded on Wednesday in a shooting incident near the border with Egypt, the Israeli military confirmed.

Wounded soldiers being evacuated to the Soroka Medical Center, Be'er Sheva.

Wounded soldiers being evacuated to the Soroka Medical Center, Be’er Sheva, October 22, 2014.- Photo: Eliyahu Hershkovitz

The two were soldiers from the mixed Caracal infantry battalion, one of them a female company commander. They were evacuated by helicopter to the Soroka Medical Center, Be’er Sheva.

Large forces were immediately mobilized to the area, near Azuz. Continue Reading »

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| May 29, 2013
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Soldier lightly injured as his ‘Chariot’ overturns during IDF tank training

 

Tank rolls over during training

after it

 diverged from its route

 in Zeelim base in southern Israel. A soldier was lightly injured and taken to hospital.

By Yoav Zitun

A tank diverged from its route and rolled over on Tuesday during an IDF training exercise in the southern base of Zeelim. One soldier was lightly injured and taken to the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba.

Merkava Mark III tank flips over - Photo courtesy IDF

Merkava Mark III tank flips over – Photo courtesy IDF

Three other soldiers who were manning the tank were not injured, but were taken for medical examinations nonetheless.

The reserve brigade commander, who commanded the exercise, arrived at the the scene with senior officers to examine the circumstances of the accident. Continue Reading »

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