War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1542: Medical Workers’ Nightmare

"Sophia, do you have any more anesthetic?"

In the operating room, Cradle asked as a new injured person was pushed in.

"No more?" Palestinian nurse Sophia asked subconsciously.

"Go get some, we've run out of them." After urging, Cradle asked, "Snow"

“I have four left.”

Without waiting for the other person to finish speaking, Edelweiss picked up a tube of anesthetic and handed it to nurse Sophia who happened to be walking over.

The latter took the anesthetic and handed it to the cradle first, then quickly walked out of the operating room.

"Starting from the next patient, the amount of anesthetic for children will be halved, as for adults." Wei Ran reminded while he was busy suturing the blood vessels of the patient on the operating table, but he did not say the second half of the sentence.

Hearing this, Edelweiss, who was standing opposite, shuddered, then nodded vigorously.

And after a brief hesitation, the cradle next to the operating table injected the anesthetic in his hand into the patient's body, reluctantly pushed half of the anesthetic in, and then immediately pulled it out.

"Are you worried about the shortage of medicine?" Edelweiss asked Wei Ran.

"Didn't we coordinate a large portion of our medicines to the hospital yesterday? And the anesthetic drugs delivered last time are all the stock in our car."

Wei Ran replied while sewing up his blood vessels, "There is no doubt that there is a shortage of medicines, especially with so many casualties today, I'm afraid..."

After a short pause, Wei Ran said, "Edelweiss, leave one, no, two, leave two and try not to use anesthesia."

Hearing this, Edelweiss was stunned for a moment, picked up two anesthetic injections, put them aside, and carefully covered them with a sterile cloth.

"What time is it now?" Wei Ran asked the second question without even raising his head.

Hearing this, Edelweiss picked up a used pair of surgical forceps, clamped her own cuff, glanced at the POW watch on her wrist, and replied while dropping the forceps, "It's already 10:48 noon, what's wrong?"

"nothing"

Wei Ran responded vaguely, but at the same time he quickened his hands.

Almost at the same time that Edelweiss cooperated with him to complete the suturing and bandaging of the injured person on the operating table, nurse Sophia, who had left not long ago, also pushed open the door of the operating room from outside.

"Have you found the anesthetic?" Wei Ran asked without raising his head before the other three people spoke.

"no"

Sophia seemed to have no idea how to answer this question. "The anesthetic has run out. I... I only found oral painkillers."

"What about painkillers?"

"Sophia"

Wei Ran didn't give Edelweiss a chance to finish her words, "Go find some stronger men."

Upon hearing this, Edelweiss looked at Wei Ran in shock, as if she understood his plan in an instant. Not only her, but even the cradle and sewing machine couple behind her stopped their hands subconsciously.

Sophia, who was holding two medicine bottles in her hands, asked in confusion, "What are you looking for someone for?"

"Surgery without anesthesia," Wei Ran answered, "There is no way to perform the surgery without someone holding it down."

This simple yet cruel explanation made Nurse Sophia visibly panic.

"Go quickly," Edelweiss urged softly, "and push this wounded man out."

After coming to her senses, Nurse Sophia hurriedly pushed the lucky injured person out of the operating room - compared to the next person who was pushed into the operating room, he was indeed lucky.

"Have you ever performed surgery without anesthesia?" Edelweiss asked nervously while Wei Ran was preparing for the next surgery.

"I have done it. What about you?" Wei Ran looked up at the other person and asked.

“No, I haven’t.”

Edelweiss took a deep breath and asked a little nervously, "Is there anything I need to pay special attention to?"

After taking a look at the wounded being pushed in, Wei Ran slightly increased his speaking speed and volume and said, "Push the equipment cart a little further away. Also, plug your ears."

Before he finished speaking, Edelweiss and Cradle immediately took action, pushing the carts containing medicines and medical equipment on both sides of the operating table a little further away, and then each took two balls of cotton wool and plugged their ears.

Just as this special preparation was completed, a man with knife wounds on his arms and thighs was pushed onto the operating table between Wei Ran and Edelweiss.

"Where are the people?" Wei Ran asked nurse Sophia, who seemed a little flustered.

"The horse will be here soon." Sophia replied quickly.

Hearing this, Wei Ran looked around, picked up two thick masks, folded them in half, and put them to the injured man's mouth, "Let him bite them, and explain the current situation to him. In addition, I will tie his hands and feet later."

After a quick reaction, Sophia quickly began to translate. The wounded man, who looked to be in his thirties, bit the mask that was brought to his mouth after a brief hesitation and continued fear.

"Tie up your hands and feet. Tie them tightly, but don't tie the joints, or they will dislocate."

Wei Ran gave an additional instruction, then picked up a surgical table cloth, cut several slits in it with scissors and tore it into strips.

As the already nervous wounded soldier's expression became more and more terrified and his breathing became more and more rapid, Wei Ran and Edelweiss tied his limbs tightly to the operating table.

Almost as they fastened the last button, four men who didn't look like medical staff at all pushed open the door and walked in.

Fortunately, these four men were all relatively strong. Unfortunately, the nervous expressions on their faces suggested that they might not have experienced such a scene before.

"Let them wear masks and surgical gowns," Wei Ran reminded at last.

This time, Nurse Sophia reacted quickly. She quickly found surgical gowns and masks and helped the four strong men put them on.

Instructing the four strong men to hold down the wounded, Wei Ran sighed and said, "Tell them not to let go no matter what."

After Sophia finished translating, the four strong men nodded to each other, and pressed the wounded man firmly on the operating table amid his unconscious screams.

"What will happen next will be a disaster for medical work and a nightmare for every medical worker."

Amid the murmur of the sewing machine, as Wei Ran began to clean the wound, this relatively spacious operating room was filled with continuous screams that sounded like hell, as well as the sound of the operating table shaking and hitting the floor.

Amid this horrific noise, the four strong men had to use all their strength to barely hold down the wounded man on the bed who was fainting and awakened by the pain again and again amidst the screams.

Compared to the frightened Edelweiss, the only thing Wei Ran could do at this time was to run as fast as possible.

  Compared with the previous crude operations without anesthesia in the difficult jungle, this time he was more urgent.

Even though he knew clearly that no matter how many people he saved at this moment, it was unknown whether these people could survive the massacre in a few hours.

But even so, he did not relax at all. Just like what he and Edelweiss had discussed before, maybe if they could live half an hour longer, they would survive. Perhaps letting these wounded live half an hour longer was the meaning of his coming here.

It was not until this time that he realized that the concentration he had gained while performing surgery without anesthesia on those wild boars with amazing voices at the Hongqi Forest Farm was so useful.

After treating the wound on the wounded man's arm as quickly as possible, Wei Ran let Edelweiss, whose eyes were filled with fear, wipe the sweat from his forehead. While Sophia was wiping the sweat off the four "anesthetists", he also helped the wounded man calm down.

"continue"

While Wei Ran was speaking, he had already walked to the injured man's legs. After the four anesthesiologists held down the injured man's body again, he began the debridement and suturing work without hesitation.

In another round of screaming and struggling, Wei Ran, who was not affected at all, handled the situation much more violently and faster than before.

In less than ten minutes, he had roughly sutured and bandaged the wound.

"Send it out"

Wei Ran took a step back and said, "Call two more people over. The four of them can't hold them down."

Nurse Sophia nodded quickly and told the four anesthesiologists to push the unconscious injured person out.

"Sophia, we have also dealt with the wounded here." The sewing machine said at the right time. Looking back, Sophia immediately walked over and pushed the frightened pale-faced wounded out by herself.

"Veterinarian, let's team up."

The sewing machine said, "I will assist you in the operation. As for the ladies, you will be responsible for treating the wounded who need anesthesia."

"it is good"

  Wei Ran nodded happily, wondering secretly in his heart, could this be the "accepting Serin Yaman's invitation to join a team" mentioned in the return mission?

Before he could figure out the problem, two more wounded people were sent in. This time, it was a young man who looked to be seventeen or eighteen years old, and a man who looked to be in his forties or fifties.

Behind these people, there were several men of different heights, but all of them looked strong and powerful.

"Is he considered a child or an adult?"

Nurse Sophia pointed to the young man on the bed with a serious bullet wound in his arm and asked a difficult question. His arm was almost broken by the bullet.

"child"

As Wei Ran spoke, he pointed to the operating table next door, which was being managed by Edelweiss and Cradle. "Send the children over there later. Send the children there first. We don't have much anesthetic left."

His answer made everyone in the operating room who knew French secretly breathe a sigh of relief. A moment later, the operating room was once again filled with screams.

In the following time, Wei Ran performed a series of operations without anesthesia with an expressionless face under the cooperation of the sewing machine. On the operating table next door, Cradle and Edelweiss also cooperated with each other to treat those children and seriously injured people who were qualified to use anesthetics.

Amid the endless screams and wails, and even the pleas for mercy that they could not understand, time passed by minute by minute, and their already limited supply of anesthetics was also rapidly consumed.

Finally, when two more wounded were sent to the operating room, they only had the last two bottles of anesthetic left that Wei Ran had asked them to hide.

But unfortunately, the two people sent in this time were both children, both of whom looked about the same age as Rama. Both of them had broken skin on their foreheads, large abrasions on their bodies, and one or two broken bones each.

"Use it."

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Wei Ran nodded helplessly.

Seeing this, the sewing machine immediately switched places with Edelweiss, and the latter also took out an injection and gave each of the two children a very small amount of it.

"What time is it now?" Wei Ran, who had already put on new gloves, asked again.

"Let me take a look."

As Edelweiss spoke, she glanced at the POW watch on her wrist and replied, "Five forty-six," as she continued to get ready.

"It's already so late?"

Wei Ran raised his eyebrows, "Hurry up. Also, Sofia, how many wounded are there outside? Where did they come from? Especially what happened to these two children?"

“There are many wounded”

Sophia replied, "They all ran in from outside. The two children were originally planning to leave the refugee camp to find their father and mother, but they were stopped. They were hit by the Yisheli army's car when they were rushing out."

"The enemy is in trouble? Is there an enemy army guarding outside?" The sewing machine was the first to realize that something was wrong.

"It's really a tough army"

Nurse Sophia replied, "They claim that they will protect the refugee camp from the war. Now all the refugees and citizens of the Blue Sky can enter the refugee camp to avoid the war."

"It's a rare good thing those warty people did," Edelweiss replied subconsciously.

"It's really a rare good thing." Cradle also breathed a sigh of relief.

"If those warty people can appease the Falangists, it would be a good thing." The sewing machine also said.

Compared to Sewing Machine and others who started discussing the situation, the only thing Wei Ran, whose microphone was manually muted by Metal Book again, could do at this time was to help the children in his charge to clean and suture the wounds on their foreheads that had already exposed the bone as quickly as possible, and then he helped them to treat the abrasions on their hands and legs as quickly as possible.

"Hold him down"

Before Wei Ran finished his words, several anesthesiologists who were standing by came over without any translation and pressed the poor little guy firmly onto the operating table.

Amid the long-lost screams and cries, Wei Ran quickly and efficiently reset the child's bones, and then fixed and bandaged them with the wooden board that he had asked Sophia to help prepare.

As soon as the child was taken away, Wei Ran quickly walked to the operating table where the Sewing Machine couple was in charge. The strong men immediately surrounded him and held down the second poor little unfortunate kid.

"boom!"

  At six o'clock in the afternoon on September 9, almost at the same time when Wei Ran put the splint on the second child, loud gunfire was heard outside the operating room!

"What's going on?" Startled Edelweiss subconsciously looked at Wei Ran.

"Bombardment"

Wei Ran said as he fastened the last rope buckle to the splint, "It looks like a tank gun."

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Before he finished his words, the sound of gunfire once again came into the operating room.

After looking at each other, everyone immediately followed the two injured patients out of the operating room and squeezed towards the window.

"It's in the direction of the south entrance of the refugee camp," Sophia pointed to the direction of the smoke outside the window. "Could it be that the Falangists and the Yisheli people are fighting?"

"There is no such good thing"

The sewing machine sighed, and at the same time couldn't help but secretly touch the Uzi submachine gun that had been on its back.

"What do we do now?"

Almost at the moment when Yaolan asked this question, chaotic gunfire was heard from the direction where the explosion had just come from.

The sewing machine frowned and replied, "Be prepared for more casualties."

"What about Rama and the others?" Edelweiss asked worriedly, "Will they be in danger?"

"Probably not"

Cradle spoke up, "They won't leave the yard, and not to mention the landlord's family, we're so close."

“Compared to the kids”

The sewing machine walking in front said worriedly, "Maybe we should worry about Mr. Hot Air Balloon's situation."

"he"

Before Edelweiss could say anything, several more artillery shots were heard from the direction just now, followed by more frequent gunshots.

"Ladies and gentlemen."

Nurse Sophia, looking a little flustered, came over and asked, "Are you still going to continue with the surgery?"

"Push them in," said the sewing machine, and walked into the operating room first.

Outside the door, Edelweiss and Wei Ran looked at each other. The latter shook his head helplessly and followed him into the operating room - he was now deprived of even the right to speak.

All he could do at this moment, apart from treating the wounded refugees who didn't know whether they had a chance to survive the massacre, was to try his best to protect his colleagues in the operating room. He didn't even have much confidence that he could protect these people.

It was not until the door of the operating room was closed again that Wei Ran realized that he had gained the right to speak.

"Clara," Wei Ran called Edelweiss in German.

"What's wrong?" Edelweiss looked at Wei Ran.

"No matter what happens, hide behind me." Wei Ran said seriously.

Hearing this, Edelweiss's eyes were clearly filled with smile, and she responded crisply, "I will."