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How to extract COVID-19 patient from ship: Drill conducted at harbour
View(s):The Navy, in collaboration with the Suwaseriya Ambulance Service, the Colombo Harbour Firefighting Unit, the Harbour Health Service and doctors from the National Quarantine Unit conducted a drill at the harbour on Friday.
This was done to rehearse standard operational procedure which could be adopted in the event of transferring a suspected COVID-19 contracted patient from a ship to the relevant hospital ashore and quarantining a particular area on the land.
The drill was carried out by the Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) unit of the Sri Lanka Navy in partnership with the Suwaseriya Ambulance Service, the Colombo Harbour Firefighting Unit, the Harbour Health Service and doctors from the National Quarantine Unit after the WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic.