(27 Mar 2025)
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Tainan City, Taiwan – 27 March 2025
1. Surgery tent on grass of high school campus during drill
2. Various interiors of tent
3. Generators outside tent
4. Taiwan President William Lai Ching-te going on stage to deliver speech
5. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) William Lai Ching-te, Taiwanese President:
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"When there is a major natural disaster or during a major catastrophe that causes large numbers of people to be wounded, or even (damages caused by) changes of geopolitics, we don’t dare not to be prepared. Prevention is better than treatment after all."
6. Various of first aid medical workers pushing a wounded person on a stretcher
7. Various of medical workers attending to a wounded person in a medical treatment tent
8. Various of people playing role of wounded in drill
STORYLINE:
Taiwan organised a drill in the southern city of Tainan on Thursday to test the island’s disaster response capabilities.
It is part of an effort to reinforce Taiwan’s capacity to endure damage, whether from a natural disaster or a possible armed invasion by an enemy.
"We don’t dare not to be prepared. Prevention is better than treatment after all," Taiwanese President William Lai Ching-te said on Thursday.
The drill was held by the Whole-of-Society Defense Resilience Committee, under the aegis of Taiwan’s presidential office.
The committee was created by Lai’s administration after he was sworn in last year.
It periodically gathers high-ranked administration personnel and specialists for meetings about national-security issues.
During the drill on Thursday, first aid workers pushed a wounded person on a stretcher while medical workers attended to a wounded person in a medical treatment tent.
AP video shot by Taijing Wu
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