UMS holds workshop on bioterrorism threats

The fire department’s hazardous material (hazmat) unit carrying out a mock decontamination process on a victim exposed to CBRNE case.

KOTA KINABALU: Some 250 personnel from government institutions and agencies took part in a workshop on how to deal with the threat of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives (CBRNE) incidents recently.

The inaugural workshop was organised by Universiti Malaysia Sabah’s (UMS) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences through its Emergency Medicine Department at the UMS campus here.