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Abloody day at the accident and emergency department
It was an unusually quiet night duty. Istarted at midnight on a cold winter night. My colleague handed me two cases tofollow up—one was an asthmatic patient, who was discharged after two hours, andthe other was a patient with renal colic, who became better with analgesia.Five hours passed without any patient knocking at the door. I thought it mightbe the cold that made people prefer to stay at home rather than coming tohospital.
At 7 10 am, we heard a loud explosion. Noone knew what it was. Shortly afterwards, about 80 schoolgirls were brought tocasualty with severe injuries. Blood was everywhere, and their clean whiteschool uniforms had turned crimson. They were crying, their innocent facesdeeply shocked. Everyone was shocked: we were used to seeing casualties andlethal injuries, but not 80 schoolgirls at once. All this was because aterrorist had blown himself up at the entrance to a high school when thestudents were about to start their classes.
We did not have enough beds for all ofthem. A red emergency state was declared, and within minutes many doctors andnurses were at the scene. We had to put two girls into each bed. We ran out ofsuturing materials and had to open the store. Many children were taken totheatre to repair their major injuries, some with minor injuries were managedin the accident and emergency department, and, sadly, some died. It was abloody morning I had that day.
When everything finished at the end of theday, I went home shocked at what I had seen. What made me feel sick was that Icouldn't find any answer to the question of why a person would blow himself upto kill innocent schoolgirls. This is an everyday story in Iraq, my belovedcountry. This experience has given me more determination to help the innocentpeople, hoping that some day there will be an end to this death toll.
Laith K Qassim AlRubaiy ([email protected]),MSc clinical dermatology candidate
King's College London;, Department of Medicine,Basra College of Medicine, University of Basra, Basra, Iraq
BMJ 2006; 333 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.333.7574.882
