RePortersNoteBook.com: AMAZING: Security concerns cause doctors to leave hospital, quake victims

Jan. 16, 2010

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/16/haiti.abandoned.patients/index.html

Security concerns cause doctors to leave hospital, quake victims

Earthquake victims, writhing in pain and grasping at life, watched doctors and nurses walk away from a field hospital Friday night after United Nations officials ordered a medical team to evacuate the area out of security concerns.

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The only doctor left at the U.N. field hospital was CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta, who assessed the needs of the 25 patients but with no supplies, there was little he could do.

Gupta monitored patients' vital signs, administered painkillers and continued intravenous drips. He stabilized three new patients in critical condition.

And more people, some in critical condition, were trickling in late Friday.

"I've never been in a situation like this. This is quite ridiculous," Gupta said.