I have been busy traveling through the devistated city finding the damaged and destroyed hospitals to see which are still capable of operating and receiving our medical teams.
The smell of death is still in the air as thousands of victims still lay entombed in the rubble that once was schools, stores , homes, and offices. This picture is of the collapsed nursing school, a 3 story building that still holds the remains of 250 students and teachers.
From my time in the Coast Guard I am used to the smell of death, but never in such numbers. It looks like the final total will be over 300,000 dead and many more are in jeoardy from secondary infection from crushed or amputated appendages. Many are dying from tetanus as they were pierced by the rebar in the cement construction and have never been immunized for it.
Most hospitals only have one building still functional, what ever it once was cafeteria, storage or laundry is now an operating room. With the open courtyards acting as the pre-op and post-op with only a tarp to protect their open woulds from the elements.
Most hospitals have patients and staff still burried in the rubble, so the post-op courtyards have the smell of death permeating them. It is truely a scene from hell, something I only thought I would see in some post-apocalyptic movie.
Please pray for these people and those caring for them.
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