757 Gone (1/2)
”How can so many people get hurt?” Ma Yanlin, who followed Ling Ran to the hospital, knowing that he was about to suffer.
Regardless of what kind of injury the patients had, he would definitely be handling the most tiring and unappreciated tasks. Moreover, the medical staff of Guozheng Charity Hospital was almost gone. Now, there were only a few nurses and care workers left. Ma Yanlin could only imagine the weight of it all.
Chef Zhu, who was also a temporary interpreter with a frying pan on his back, was stunned when he came in and saw the wailing patients. He whispered some questions before he got up and said, ”There are patients here who were injured in car accidents, some of them even had their houses falling on them, some fell from their barns when they were working on them, and some fell from their horses.”
”So, these patients all had accidents? All of them?” Ma Yanlin was more surprised.
”It didn't happen in one day, but these patients recently came over together. Since medical staff is in such short supply, the volunteers gathered them in the hall to solve their problems in one go.”
Ma Yanlin looked at the hall of the small rural clinic. He had a nauseated-looking face, ”The volunteers who come to help are not even doctors.”
”The doctors are all gone, so we have to find a way to transfer the seriously injured patients out of here,” Chef Zhu asked a couple more questions, came back, and shrugged. He said, ”It's like the apocalypse. Now, there are at least one hundred wounded people with varying degrees of injuries. All of them need to be dealt with urgently…”
Ma Yanlin heard this and suddenly laughed.
”What's going on?”
”Oh, nothing. I mean…” Ma Yanlin thought for a moment and said, ”This is far from the apocalypse. This is what the large-scale tertiary Grade A hospitals in China deal with every day.”
”What?”
”We have two doctors, one hundred patients, a few inexperienced volunteers, and several nurses, right? Do we still have enough hospital beds?” Ma Yanlin pursed his mouth and said, ”Before coming to Brazil, we did this kind of thing every day. All right, roll up your sleeves.”
Ma Yanlin said as he led Chef Zhu to the group of patients. One by one, they checked the tags on the patients' wrists and made further check-ups. After he saw the state of the hospital, he lost faith in the volunteers' classification on the patients.
”The doctors are all gone…? You Brazilians sure know how to handle stuff,” Ma Yanlin said as he shook his head.
Chef Zhu chuckled. ”I'm no Brazilian. Besides, doctors are of high status. It's impossible for them to stay here.”
Ma Yanlin cast a sideways glance at Chef Zhu. ”We are doctors, aren't we?”
”That was wrongly worded, I'm sorry.” Chef Zhu coughed a couple of times and said, ”At times like this, the doctors from China are the most reliable.”
”We are reliable. But there are some useless people that cannot be relied on,” Ma Yanlin spoke as he checked on the patients.
At this time, Ling Ran came back from the operating theater, and he was accompanied by a beautiful girl named Selena, who was dressed in a maid costume. Her task was to be an interpreter.
”The operating theaters can still be used. Now, there are only two nurses in total. Leave one outside, I'll take one in. By the way, Selena will temporarily be our surgical nurse.” Ling Ran made a quick decision. He looked around again, picked out one of the patients, and called the patient's family, ”We will send him to the operating theater first. Send all the patients back to their rooms.”
”This won't do.” Right then, the volunteer-in-charge of the hospital stood up. She was a middle-aged lady, and she looked very imposing. She said, ”We can only take care of the patients once we gather them in one place. Now, we are short of manpower. No one knows how long the storm and flood will last. During this period, helicopters are unable to come…”