The Centro de Emergencias Sanitarias 061 in Granada coordinated a medical-response drill, to train for an accident on the city's metro system.

The exercise or drill, which was held in the early hours of November 7th, recreated a fire with smoke in a carriage stopped between the Recogidas and Méndez Núñez stations, requiring the evacuation and treatment of ten simulated victims.

The operation deployed an Advanced Medical Post at the Hípica station and a medical area at Recogidas, where triage and evacuation of those affected took place. In total, ten people played the roll of passengers with minor injuries and eight, serious injuries, distributed between inside the metro carriages and at the Recogidas station itself.

Medical personnel from the Granada 061 Emergency Medical Center, the Protección-Civil Service, the Red Cross, and the Fire Department, among others, participated in the exercise, with the aim of improving coordination between them and response times for mass-casualty incidents in underground environments.

Another recent drill of this kind was that of an aircraft accident at the Federico García Lorca Granada-Jaén Airport in October, a gas explosion at a fairground attraction in Córdoba in February, and a forest-fire drill held in Benalmádena (Málaga) in May.

(News: City & Metropolitan Area, Granada, Andalucia)

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