“The wounded keeps coming” 
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After the doctor sees the patients, they are pushed to another room. Then they send us newbies, the ones that have started for one or two weeks, to go take care of them. They hand over the bowl, scissors, and gauze and tell us to go take care of those patients. Those that got injured with their legs hanging, have a wound on their stomach, back or head are pulled to a different section. The more experienced nurses and doctors take care of those patients. Those that got cut and need cleaning, or if there is a bullet stuck and we can pull it out with a knife or needle then we clean it and then wrap it. After we bandaged them up, we found beds for them to stay in. I am petite so it takes 4 nurses to carry a patient. We find the room and make the bed so they can sleep in. Then after we finished working on the critical patients, we found a place and made the bed ready for the patients. When we worked there [at one of the hospitals], it was still small. There were only three rooms, but there were so many injured people. I don’t even know how many patients come through a day. Patients come to us by plane and by helicopter. As soon as we move the patients to the room, a helicopter is already bringing patients. Then later that night or early the next morning, there is already another plane taking in more patients. The airport is right next to the hospital. You can see injured people laying all over.