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Deadly Cold Weather Strikes Tsunami-Hit Hospital
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Temat: Wiadomości
A 90-year-old patient at the Tagajo Sen-en hospital
screams out that she is cold.
The temperature inside is a few degrees above freezing.
On some nights, it drops below zero Celsius.
There is no electricity, gas or water.
The cold and the shortage of medicine
have claimed the lives of 12 elderly patients
since the waves roared through the lower floors of this hospital.
Yoichi Hashiguchi is the Hospital's Deputy Head Doctor.
Most of the patients here have had strokes or cerebral infections,
so they can’t move by themselves.
The thing we need the most is the special milk,
which we feed them through tubes.
We don’t have any of that
so they aren’t getting enough nutrition.
In the darkened wards the nurses do the best they can.
They salvaged what medicines they could from the wreckage.
They’ve begun heating bottles of water
on a makeshift propane stove,
to use as hot water bottles.
Tomomi Goto is one of the nurses working 18-hour shifts.
It’s really cold and I can’t do much for my patients
so I get really depressed when I get home.
Today I felt like I couldn’t do anything,
and makes me so sad.
But if I look miserable at work the patients will get more worried.
So I always try to smile.
Goto's car was wrecked in a tsunami
and with a gasoline shortage she can’t easily get home.
So she and her colleagues often sleep on the floor of the hospital
refusing to abandon their patients.
There’s no laundry service
and while there are enough clean bedclothes to last a few days,
dirty sheets are starting to pile up.
The working conditions here are incredibly tough.
Dr. Satsuki Ishigaki says the conditions are starting to take a toll on the staff.
All the doctors and patients also suffered in the tsunami.
Many lost their houses too.
So everyone is very stressed
and it’s bad for our health too.
A nationwide gasoline shortage has delayed the delivery of vital supplies.
The army has installed a generator,
which operates for two hours in the evening
... a vital window for the doctors to perform the most important tasks.
Then, darkness descends on the Sen-en hospital.
Dr. Hashiguchi uses a solar light,
designed for use in the garden,
to do his nighttime rounds.
He says he and the other stuff are just doing their jobs.
I really want to get things back to normal as soon as possible
and bring all the patients back here.
I want to reopen the hospital again
and support the people of this town.
About 200 patients were transferred to nearby hospitals.
The 50 who remain are the most serious cases.
In normal times, Japan has a state-of the art health service;
its people live the longest in the world.
But here in Miyagi, normality has gone.
The tsunami itself took tens of thousands of lives.
It has left behind a deadly legacy
for the most vulnerable of those who survived.
