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MINSK, 26 April (BelTA) – The 8th international school to train specialists of the Belarusian Society of the Red Cross to respond to emergencies took place at the Institute for Retraining and Professional Development (IRPD) of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry near Borisov, the press service of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry told BelTA.
The school began on 23 April. Teams of volunteers and specialists of the national societies of the Red Cross from Belarus, Italy, Russia, and Ukraine – over 70 people – took part in the exercise. Over the course of three days they shared their best practices and experts were trained to respond to emergencies, which may emerge in the course of public events.
The exercise was supposed to practice and polish procedures for interaction between volunteer teams of the Belarusian Society of the Red Cross and interested government agencies and public organizations during large-scale mass events in Belarus. The exercise focused on training 2nd European Games Minsk 2019 volunteers to provide first aid in an emergency. Rapid emergency response volunteers of the Belarusian Society of the Red Cross will also be on duty during the sport forum, including as part of mobile medical teams.
The volunteer teams had an opportunity to practice their skills in the field using the exercise area of the Institute for Retraining and Professional Development. The volunteers were able to practice providing first aid in incidents with a large number of victims, practice working in a crowd, practice saving people in hard-to-reach places and from under debris, and practice providing psychosocial aid to the victims.
The Belarusian Society of the Red Cross has held such emergency response exercises since 2011. The event went international in 2014. Experts of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the International Committee of the Red Cross took part in the exercise events arranged by the Belarusian Society of the Red Cross at various times as well as volunteers and employees of the Red Cross of Bulgaria, Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, Norway, Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Magen David Adom (the Red Cross organization of Israel), the Red Crescent of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.
