By Raji Unnikrishnan
Healthcare professionals in the Middle East must be trained to handle new and unexpected types of injuries as novel weapons of terror threaten the region, said an expert.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre-Boston and Harvard Medical School Disaster Medicine senior fellow Dr Derrick Tin pointed out the emergence of counter-terrorism medicine (CTM) as a speciality due to the ‘increasingly complex healthcare impacts of terrorist events’.
He was speaking at the second Bahrain Emergency Medicine Conference (BEMC) 2021, being held virtually at the Crown Prince Centre for Medical Research, Riffa, yesterday.
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