Fake plane crash tests Code Orange emergency response at Montreal hospitals
Montreal health authorities and police simulated a plane crash, sending 60 people to Montreal hospitals with fake injuries.
Montreal health authorities and police simulated a plane crash, sending 60 fake victims to Montreal hospitals
Sixty "victims" were transported to Sacré-Coeur Hospital Thursday morning in a simulated emergency exercise meant to test the health care network's response to a Code Orange.
"A Code Orange is an international code used to signal a catastrophe or external emergency that requires the mass transportation of casualties to hospitals", said Michel Garceau of Montreal's health and social services agency in a news release.
"The simulation is very important since it will help improve practices already in place," he said.
The simulation exercise also involved Jean-Talon and Hôtel-Dieu hospitals.
Similar exercises were held in October 2012 and 2013.