Prescribing the right medicine

Meir Oren, an Israeli expert on emergencies, shares his expertise with a Chinese hospital. Liu Xiangrui reports.

An expert on medical emergency is now helping a hospital in Northwest China. In the 1990s, he used to work as a senior official in Israel's Health Ministry.

His expertise includes hospital preparedness for exceptional scenarios such as bacterial warfare, bioterrorism or natural disasters. The military trained him for such emergencies in his youth.