Chapter 757: Gone
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“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’ cla.s.sification 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…”
“Gathering patients together will increase the risk of infection. This hospital lacks sufficient drugs, so send the patients back to their rooms.” Ling Ran was willing to speak a little more when he made a medical explanation, but his tone was a little firmer.
The middle-aged lady snorted a couple of times. She became slightly worried but insisted. “We only have five volunteers in total, and we need to take care of hundreds of patients. If we disperse them to different rooms… we are not professional nurses…”
“Let the patient’s family members help, and tell those with minor injuries take care of themselves.” Ling Ran had been in the Emergency Department for more than a year. He had not only done surgeries and emergency treatments, but also listened to Hu Congjun talk about some technical things. Military doctors were already familiar with situations like this since a long time ago, and they had various full-developed plans to handle them.
In truth, if no doctor came over to help within a short period of time, Ling Ran’s surgeries in the operating theaters would have to go through some changes as well.
For example, he would not complete the surgery, but would prioritize saving lives and stabilizing the patients’ conditions.
The current Guozheng Charity Hospital was not a hospital with complete facilities. The lack of medical staff, especially lack of drugs, blood products, and medical consumables had greatly reduced the ability of the hospital to guarantee the safety of the patient.
At present, the main problem of the hospital was the lack of transportation.
Due to the storms in Cuba Town, helicopters could neither take off nor land at all, and ordinary SUVs and pickups could not drive through more than sixty miles in the mud, much less ordinary cars. Only big trucks could barely pa.s.s through the mud, and whether or not they succeeded depended on the drivers’ driving skills and the mechanical condition of the vehicles as well.
Most importantly, Cuba Town was currently located in high ground. At least, it was not threatened by floods and mudslides. Once someone drove out, they might run into a section of the road which would be surrounded by floods and mud. This was a problem of probability. It could not be avoided even if the driver had a good quality car or the driver had good driving skills.
Even for Unimogs, they were also helpless when they ran into a mudslide or if they encountered a road after a landslide or mudslide, where a large amount of soil would be piled up, because it would cause real trouble.
Such trouble increased the risk of transportation. So, this made it impossible for them to transport patients to Cuba Town.
Ling Ran also realized that he would need to go through an extended period of time with a lack of sufficient medicine. So, he was also very resolute when he faced the volunteers.
The volunteers who stood across Ling Ran looked at him and had no more energy to oppose him any further.
“Okay, then. You’re the only doctor here. We’ll listen to you.” The middle-aged female volunteer sighed and said, “My name is Julia. Just call me Julie. What should we do now?”
“Organize and clean the ward, make a list of the drugs and medical consumables in the storeroom. Then, move the patients to the ward. Form a connection with the outside world. It’s best if it’s a satellite phone.” Ling Ran poured out the information he learned from Hu Congjun. He roughly did a check-up on the patients and entered the operating theater.
“The patient has an abdominal injury, and his shoulder is in great pain. He had a car accident, but there’s no X-ray machine here,” the nurse said a few words, and Selena translated them to Ling Ran.
In just a few seconds, the bad condition of the hospital was exposed.
Fortunately, X-rays could be replaced by the Virtual Human. Ling Ran nodded, looked at the right side habitually, frowned, and asked, “Where is the anesthetist?”
“Gone.” Selena directly translated it.
Ling Ran was solemn, yet he was still handsome in that sobriety.