(Dr. Soe Min’s post from his FACEBOOK PAGE on 15 March 2021)
Yesterday,
despite all the road blocks all over the city, I managed to reach the burning city
Hlaing Tharyar.
I tried to call, failed miserably of course, the
phone-numbers of medical facilities in the area. So I went direct to the Hlaing
Tharyar Hospital and asked if I could help, of course after introducing myself
as a surgeon, and they sent me direct to the emergency surgery.
There was one
wounded patient inside and another one waiting just outside the surgery to
enter, and I didn’t even know how many wounded were waiting downstairs. Right away I started operating on the one
already inside. Then another one. One after another.
At just after 7
pm I finished fixing a wounded patient with large open wound on belly and
mutilated insides. I could still hear the gunshots from right outside the
hospital.
When I went back down to Emergency, the world is ending there. Since the
army had just withdrawn temporarily for the night the Ambulances (hiding with
their wounded patients) were coming into the hospital one after another. Volunteer
paramedics were rapidly carrying patients one after another into emergency room.
Some were alive and still breathing but dying, and some were already dead on
arrival.