Some of us decided to walk over to the orphanage - a two-story building that housed a make shift emergency triage area, as well as housing over 200 or so earthquake victims and their families. It was about a 4 minute walk from the main hospital. Along the way, 2 air conditioned trailers served as an ICU which had 4 critically ill patients. A small chapel off to the side also served as patient shelters. A huge tent around the back was full of patients, laying on cots with different types of injuries. There were so many children. Oddly, it was pretty quiet. Not a lot of crying children I noticed. Perhaps because they were all exhausted to even let a cry out...
Walking through the orphanage hallways, a dog was wandering aimlessly. He looked tired too. Even the hallways were filled with beds/cots with patients. A couple of ambulances and a school bus were dropping off patients who were once in the main hospital for one reason or another. This was the place where they would go for further medical care.
Feeling a little tired and somewhat overwhelmed of just seeing masses of injured people in one place, those of us who were going to be working the night shift decided to go back to our sleeping residence...little did I know that it was going to be a long and nerve wracking night for me...
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