Thursday, March 03, 2005

Call My Name And Save Me From The Dark

Hello

I am so sorry for not posting in the last 2 weeks. The telephone wire was cut off by one of the trucks that carry a large gray blocks that is used as a 1st line of defense against terrorist's attacks in front of official buildings or any important center, so this post is assumed to be published in the last week !!!

This post assumed to be about my car & my car's accidents but instead of this, I will talk about the serious events that happened in the 10th of Muharam or what's called (Ashoraa) which is a ritual related to Muslims (Shiaa), & this is how the story happened:
On Saturday 19th of February, it was the Day of Ashoraa & as I explained before, it ritual related to Shiaa & as our hospital located in Al-Kadimia city, where Muslims from Shiaa go to do their rituals, So we were in red alert in case if there r any terrorist attacks.

The great shock began when we opened a big medical box that morning assumed to filled with medical equipments & stuff specified for that day. but instead of finding medical things we found a big amount of medical cotton only & it was apparently that the other things are either stolen by the sub staff or the medical things were not in the box initially & they were stolen before that time!!!!!! L

We opened our eyes on that thing at the morning. Then we had other problems, which are:
1- the limited amount of drugs & especially analgesic one, so we had 5 ampoules of Profen only, & this amount is assumed to be used for hundreds of people who injured them self during their rituals.
2- The other problem was the limited no. of sphygmomanometers in the emergency room & in the hospital itself
3- that day, there was deficiency of blood bottles. We had only few bottles of group A+, B+ & O+ but none of A-, B-, AB+, AB - & O-.

At 8:00 O'clock in the morning, the no. of incoming patients began to increase, & all of patients were who injured themselves during their rituals. so we did them the best we could, as we cleaned their injuries & sutured them. however, many of them were unlucky bcz they didn't get a blood despite that they loss or an analgesic drug so they ought to suffer from pain while suturing without analgesics nor anesthetics.

Nearly at noon, we heard a sound of successive explosions near the hospital & these explosions took place Addan Square in Al-Kadimia city by the terrorists. Firstly, they explode a bus between the walking people & then as the peoples crowded there trying to save the injured victims a couple of terrorists explode themselves among the crowd & then followed by other explosions in the same location.

At that time, the no. of incoming victims began to increase rapidly, but with major difference between the morning patients & the noon one. Bcz most of the explosions' victims were seriously injured & many of them lost there hands or other extremities during these explosions & when the reached the hospital, many of them lost their life too. No. of victims was very large so there were no enough ambulances to carry them, so many of them were carried by trucks used in building & constricting. All These trucks came to our hospital as it is the only near hospital to the place of explosions, so I saw 2 trucks loaded with human burned flesh & one of the trucks was carrying only victims extremities or horribly cut dead victims. The scene was very horrible & I couldn't bear it, so I fall down on the ground from the shock that scene cause me. I got the pictures of that scene & I intended to publish it but I couldn't, since it was very horrible, hurtful ,sore ,grievous, & harrowing, so I erased them from my computer but not from my mind bcz I remember that scene frequently & couldn't sleep for 2 days after that accident.

About the patients, most of the accident victims died in the hospital since we were an armless knight in front of army, we couldn't do anything to them but some of simple things, and even we couldn't find them a bed to lie on it. I don't know who to blame, the terrorists who made these explosions or the medical sub staff who stole these medical thing which is initially insufficient to all of these victims but it could help some of them.

This was the last day to me in the hospital, as I started my new semester the last Sunday. & this is how I left the hospital behind with my colleagues with a great amount of distress, depression, ruefulness, shock, sorrow & regret bcz we couldn't save many victims & we couldn't help much but the thing that we are happy about is that we tried to be positive & help & that's in addition to the experience we have got from this job.

Before leaving the hospital until the next holiday. my colleagues & I said goodbye to sub staff, some of the patients & doctors who tried to teach us some skills. therefore, we became friends & I shall say that that was one of the most wonderful times in my life & I wish I could do it again soon bcz I spent my time for the rest of others.

I told my friends in the hospital about my site & how u were very cooperative to help & some of them read ur comments so many of the stuff members that they know about my site ask me to ask u to try to help with

1-digital sphygmomanometers, since the hospital lack adequate no. of sphygmomanometers (most of them r broken) & totally lack digital one which if present will solve many problems & especially in emergency room.

2-cannula for pediatrics (children) since all cannulas we have in the hospital is for adult & children may die due to this simple things or must suffer from pain arise from
Adult's cannula.

I took the address of the college, so if u r interested, u can send ur help on

Iraq, Baghdad, Al-Kadimia, Medical College of Al-Nahrain University, P.O. box 14222
Note: don't forget to write Saif Ahmad, 3rd grade of medical college so that the college will notify me when the parcel reach.

On the other hand, if u wanna send it to my house directly please e-mail me on
Saif_alsheikh@hotmail.com

Special thanks for (Steve D., Cyndi M., jon v., Sheryl C., Ed G., Joanne B., Kathleen H., Mary A., Charles S., Mike O., Robert O., Rei F. & Nancy C.) & to all who support Iraq, Iraq will not forget u so as his people & God bless u all.

looking foreword to hearing from u,

Yours,

Dr.Humanity
3rd of March 2005

28 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dr. Saif - your words bring tears to my eyes because of all the suffering in the Iraqi people's lives and of all your and other medical staff's suffering trying to save people and provide comfort.

You know a picture is worth a thousand words; I don't know if the outside world is ready to see what you have seen, but sometimes a picture sure wakes people up to other's suffering and realities.

God Bless you Dr. Saif and enjoy your university studies.

Joanne

2:04 PM  
Blogger Grizzly Mama said...

These are just horrible terrorist attacks and remind me of the tactics used by terrorist groups against Israelis - ie: bomb and then when the rescuers come to help - bomb again. It's sick and I'm sorry. You are very brave to be in the thick of it trying to help even though you do not have many of the tools needed to help at the hospital.

I am glad you provided an address and I will send some emails out to people I know in the medical field to see if we can get some of this stuff mailed off to you. As long as you feel safe with us mailing to the hospital and don't feel that it will be stolen then I will send packages there of whatever we can come up with.

Thank you for posting Dr. Humanity.
Monica

6:07 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dr. Saif,
I am so sorry about all the death and destruction that the terrorists bring upon the Iraqi people.

I can't help with equipment as I am not that well off financially but I will pray for you and the hospital that you receive the equipment that you need to save these people's lives.

You are doing a great good for your country by working in the hospital to save lives. God Bless you for your efforts in helping to rebuild your country.

I saw your post on Iraq the Model.

May peace reign in Iraq!!

Donna

7:54 PM  
Blogger A. Damluji said...

Dr. Saif:
I liked your post.. I've felt the same state of helplessness over this past year, although to a lesser extent than you of course.. I am in the engineering college of Nahrain Uni. doing my MSc now, I got friends in Medical Engineering and Med college, maybe I know u!
cheer up friend.. no frets about the past, because it is gone and no amount of tears shed will change it..

Salam to all.

4:10 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dr. Saif--
These events are so terrible my mind cannot conceive of them. You must be very shaken indeed to have seen and experienced such terrible things.
... I know this comment will do little to help you, but why is there not better administration of the hospitals there? For example, you appoint a person to monitor and distribute supplies. You tell that person he must account for all supplies at all times and that he will lose his job if he fails. I don't understand why this is such a difficult proposition. ... If I failed in my basic mission at work, I have no doubt whatsoever that I would be gone in an instant!

7:33 AM  
Blogger $@!F said...

anyone can fix one or two problems but surely can't fix a whole society. u can't imagine the amount of retardation we've got here so this is y we are a developing country. Here people may hurt the doctor if their patients die, so u can imagine!!!.

Once I was walking in the hospital when I was in the 2nd grade, a person ask me to write him some drugs that is used for many disease,but when i told him that I'm still a student, he became angry & start to talk badly & he curse me & the one who let me wear the medical coat(lab coat).We r here in Iraq are used to this manner, as iraq now contain 2 groups of people

1-well educated people with a good manner & those represent 15-30%

2-the other 70% are ignorant.

so the 30% is used to live peacly with the other 30%

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Blogger Ibn_Alrafidain said...

Greetings,
Good work my friend…keep on it.

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I'll pass the word around my area too Doc, keep your head down! There's some crazies out in the streets.

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Ann
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