Survey: D.C. hospitals ill-prepared for mass casualty event

Published May 6, 2008 4:00am ET



D.C.’s emergency rooms are among the least prepared in the country to handle a major terrorist attack despite the city’s status as a major target, according to a congressional survey released Monday.

The District’s emergency medical system is incapable of handling a mass casualty event on the scale of the 2004 Madrid bombing, which killed 191 and injured 2,000, said the report.

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