The World Health Organization (WHO), with funding from the Government of the United Kingdom, launched Egypt’s second national training-of-trainers (ToT) programme on mass casualty management (MCM) for hospital emergency units.

The initiative, involving WHO’s 3 levels – headquarters, the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean and the Egypt Country Office – is part of WHO Egypt’s Health Emergencies Programme and aims to enhance emergency preparedness while strengthening the long-term resilience of the Egyptian health care system. The ToT certified 16 national instructors who were immediately deployed to train 60 health care professionals from 6 hospitals in Greater Cairo and Ismailia.