Dr. Nick Maynard
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It has, I think, a bed capacity of 200 normally.
There were something like 800 patients there.
The grounds of the hospital, the corridors, the waiting areas were covered in patients and their relatives.
You could hardly move.
I mean, literally, every time you walked into the hospital, you were treading over people who were lying there or sitting there.
And the trauma we saw that time in December 2003, the numbers of aerial bombardments was just nonstop.
So we had mass casualty after mass casualty.
It was really quite remarkable, the awful trauma you were seeing.
And this hospital, the quality of the surgical care, the medical care is remarkable, but there's only so much you can do with limited resources.
So the capacity of the hospital was being repeatedly overwhelmed.
Yeah, yeah.
I spent the whole time operating on major patients.
explosive injuries, bomb injuries.
And these were injuries affecting... So I do abdominal and thoracic surgery back home in Oxford, so I was operating on the abdomen and the chest all the time.
And these were injuries at that time from explosive injuries and from what are called the fragmentation missiles that were being used there.
And these are the bombs which...
have contained many thousands of very very small metal pieces which then act as thousands of pieces of shrapnel which tear through the human bodies these are bombs which are
designed to cause the maximum amount of tissue destruction.
And they did indeed do that.
So we saw multiple civilians, children, 70% of the people I treated in that first trip were women and children being destroyed by these bombs.
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