IRAQ: DOCTORS AND NURSES AT BAGHDAD'S AL-KINDY HOSPITAL WORK AROUND THE CLOCK TO TRY AND COPE MOUNTING WAR CASUALTIES

Record ID: 648182

  • Title: IRAQ: DOCTORS AND NURSES AT BAGHDAD'S AL-KINDY HOSPITAL WORK AROUND THE CLOCK TO TRY AND COPE MOUNTING WAR CASUALTIES
  • Date: 5th April 2003
  • Summary: (W5) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (APRIL 5, 2003) (REUTERS- NO ACCESS CNN INTERNATIONAL) 1. MV: AMBULANCE ARRIVING AT BAGHDAD'S AL-KINDY HOSPITAL 0.08 2. SV: MEDICS WHEELING BODY ON STRETCHER INTO HOSPITAL 0.18 3. SV: WOUNDED WHEELED IN ON STRETCHER, ACCOMPANIED BY FAMILY 0.24 4. SV: MAN PUSHING WHEELCHAIR WITH YOUNG MAN WITH HEAD AND ARM WOUND 0.38 5. MV: WOUNDED IN WARD, MOTHER SITTING NEXT TO CHILD LYING ON HOSPITAL BED WITH INTRAVENOUS DRIPS 0.42 6. SV: WOUNDED INSIDE WARD 0.46 7. SV: NURSE CHANGING HEAD BANDAGE 0.51 8. SV'S: NURSE PUTTING INTRAVENOUS DRIP IN CHILD'S ARM, CHILD CRYING (2 SHOTS) 1.02 9. SV/SCU: YOUNG MAN WITH EYE PAD ON HOSPITAL BED (2 SHOTS) 1.10 10. SCU: MOTHER CRYING 1.22 11. SV/SCU: YOUNG WOMAN IN BED, BLOOD SEEPING ON HER SCARF (2 SHOTS) 1.30 12. VARIOUS OF SURGEONS WHEELING WOUNDED YOUNG MAN INTO OPERATING THEATRE (3 SHOTS) 1.46 13. SV: FAMILY BRINGING OUT COFFIN OUT OF HOSPITAL; FAMILY LOADING COFFIN ON CAR ROOFTOP 2.07 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th April 2003 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA80EVZO38YOWZPLNW1JNLG5YUD
  • Story Text: Doctors at Baghdad's al-Kindy hospital have been
    working around the clock to try and cope with mounting
    casualties, many of them civilians.


    An ambulance speeds towards Baghdad's al-Kindy hospital
    on Saturday (April 5, 2003), bringing the latest casualties to teams
    of exhausted doctors and nurses.

    The International Committee of the Red Cross said several
    hundred wounded Iraqis have been admitted to Baghdad
    hospitals. The number of casualties has significantly
    increased since U.S. troops reached the city and fighting
    erupted in the streets.

    Doctors at al-Kindy hospital alone say they received
    dozens of wounded and dead on Saturday.

    Patients said their their houses in the al-Dura
    neighbourhood in Baghdad were shelled last night and in the
    morning during heavy fighting between Iraqi soldiers and U.S
    troops.

    Journalists were showed half a dozen civilian casualties,
    many of them children. But in other wards, it was impossible
    to say whether the wounded were civilians or soldiers.

    Hospitals are finding it increasingly difficult to cope
    with the flow of casualties.

    According to Iraqi authorities, U.S.-led attacks have
    killed 1,252 civilians and injured 5,103 in Iraq. The number
    of military casualties is unknown but is expected to be very
    high.


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