Scenes from hell as dead pile up at Haiti hospital

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s main hospital is  open again, but there are no doctors and few medical supplies  and wailing injured earthquake victims litter the grounds,  waiting for treatment on makeshift beds.
Nearby, bloated corpses of those killed in Tuesday’s  massive earthquake pile up in the yard of the morgue of  Port-au-Prince’s General Hospital.
The stench of death and sickness permeates facemasks, not  that the hundreds of people here have access to any.
Most have been under the baking sun on mats, wooden boards  and wheeled-out beds waiting for medical attention.
The garden is crammed full of wounded people shaded by bed  sheets tied to trees. Some victims are hooked to tubes of  makeshift drips hanging from branches.
Amputated legs are mostly bandaged, but the sole nurse says  she has no proper supplies, no antibiotics, no pain killers.
“I’m alone here, and we have many emergency cases,” said  Georgette Sergillies, 41, a trainee nurse, going from bed to  bed.
“There are no doctors, no surgeons. I was supposed to get  delivery this morning of medical supplies from abroad, but they  never arrived,” she said. “On my own, I cannot even cope with  the toilet arrangements for all these people.”
Four days after a catastrophic earthquake, some aid has  arrived in Haiti, but it has yet to be distributed as  governments and relief groups tackle huge logistical challenges  in an impoverished capital city whose feeble communications and  infrastructure have been largely destroyed.
At the hospital, 8-year-old Widelie Florent, wearing a pink  Cinderella nightgown, stares silently out from bandages  patching up her crushed head.
“WE NEED A SURGEON”
Probably a pretty girl before she was injured in the quake,  her eyes, nose and mouth are now so puffed up she can barely  see or swallow. Her teeth are out of place, her forehead  misshapen.
“It took us up to five hours to pick her out from the  rubble and bring her here,” said her brother Ronald, 22, who  was feeding her mashed banana after four days in which she  would only take milk through a straw.
“She is brave, but we need a surgeon,” he said.
Everybody in the hospital garden tries to catch the  reporter’s eye to ask for medicine. Parents walk about  clutching young children wrapped in wooden splinters and  plugged into drips.
A man lay on the back of a truck breathing deeply.
“We need to see a doctor. We have been here four days and  we need help. We need water,” says Maude Morlan, clutching a  soggy tissue at her husband’s bedside.
Another man, Jimmy Irhah, who has waited four days for  medical attention for a smashed thigh and shoulder and severe  lacerations to his limbs, begs for painkillers.
Many of the wounded are so delirious they are unaware of  the corpses being carried past them to join scores of  decomposing bodies in the morgue 100 yards (91 metres) away.
Around midday, some Swiss medical personnel arrive at the  hospital, but they quickly crush hopes that swift medical  attention will be given.
“It takes time. There is a lot to arrange. We cannot just  go out there and start handing things out,” said relief medic  Beat Kehrer. “There may be some people who will still die, but  that is just the way it is.”