曼德勒中心醫院是當地最大的醫院，設立至今已超百年。3月28日的地震讓這家醫院失去了至少兩棟建築，其中一棟是手術樓。

It is impossible to receive patients or see patients indoors, and hospital beds are erected along the curb, in the garden, and in the open space of the hospital. At noon, the temperature rose, the injured had eaten and covered their faces with cloths, and their families sat on the grass full of empty lunch boxes, and the air was filled with a peculiar smell.

Cracks in the exterior walls of the hospital. Photo by Beijing News reporter Cong Zhixiang

200余名地震傷者仍在這裡住院。當地4月1日下午，曼德勒中心醫院的院長表示，這裡缺少蚊帳、帳篷和凈水器等物資。

Mandalay Central Hospital was built in 1500, during the British colonial period. Each department has a professional medical team, with more than 0 buildings and 0 inpatient beds, making it the largest hospital in Mandalay and the second largest hospital in Myanmar.

At the time of the earthquake, Deputy Director Sai Hla Tin was driving, and when he reached a few hundred meters near the entrance to the hospital, he pulled over to the side of the road – the wounded and vehicles that had come to seek treatment had blocked the hospital gate.

Cuili, a 500-year-old surgical intern, saw the same sight. He found that the wounded were "pouring in at once," bleeding, lame, hanging arms, and being carried...... However, in about half an hour, the road more than 0 meters inside the hospital was already crowded with people.

Wounded and family members in the open space of the hospital. Photo by Beijing News reporter Cong Zhixiang

All hospital staff immediately gathered near the emergency department. Before the earthquake, the hospital had been trained in how to respond to public emergencies. There is a tacit understanding in the medical room, first treat the seriously injured with cerebral hemorrhage and unconscious, and then go home for observation after simple disinfection and bandaging of skin trauma.

Sai介紹，該院震前就住著一千多名患者，震後24小時，又新接收了600多名傷患。醫護人手不夠，只能優先救治重傷者，候診的人群裡不斷發出呻吟聲。

Problems kept arising: no one dared to enter the hospital building, aftershocks did not know when they would come, and many commonly used medicines were placed on the second floor and could not be taken down; CT cannot be taken, and patients with head injuries cannot be diagnosed; Unable to have surgery......

"There is no one to command at the scene, and no one can command, this is an unprecedented situation, and everyone can only act by tacit understanding." Sai said. Emergency medical staff do the initial diagnosis and sterilization and dressing, and those with minor injuries are home for observation, and those with severe injuries are sent to general surgery. If the general surgery department cannot cure it, it will be sent to the brain surgery department.

The wounded and their families sit on the floor in the hospital. Photo by Beijing News reporter Cong Zhixiang

地震第一天，崔利處理了超過一百處傷口，大約是平時的10倍。平常，該院普外科的日接診量是10到20位。只有在潑水節、拜佛節和學校考試時，外出活動的人多了，接診量才偶爾翻倍。

On the first night, the medical staff and patients rested on the road in the hospital. Sai lies on the warm floor and has trouble sleeping, and there are still many questions that remain unanswered: Where should cancer patients go for treatment? Will there be an increase in the number of injured tomorrow? When is it safe to get in and out of the hospital......

地震48小時後，來就醫的傷者增加至200多名，醫院繼續超負荷運轉，醫護輪班，有些甚至連軸轉。

太平間的工作人員也沒時間歇。3月31日中午，太平間的醫生告訴記者，震後的幾日，他們收到了260多具遺體，這大概是平時一個月的總數。他坐在太平間前的大樹下，有些駝背，雙眼布滿紅血絲。

Whenever someone finds a deceased relative or friend, the cry rings out. He would always say, "I suffer the same as you." Even though death is a regular occurrence here, the sheer number of deaths is still painful for him.

These people who died in the earthquake were injured in different places, and as a doctor in the morgue, all he could do was to clean the faces and facial features of the deceased and let them leave with dignity.

During the day, the temperature reaches 40 degrees Celsius, and people rest in the shade of the trees. Photo by Beijing News reporter Cong Zhixiang

96 hours, less than 0 injured people arrived in the hospital, 0 hours, the number of injured people continued to decline, Sai finally dared to breathe a sigh of relief.

Here comes a new problem. Where do the injured who need to be hospitalized live?

病床在花園裡、鐵棚下和空地上架起，護士在旁邊地上鋪塊布，累了坐下休息，方便隨時照顧病人。燥熱和蚊子等自然條件外，更嚴重的是物資短缺。好在民間捐贈者不斷，4月1日下午，缺少的物品數量已經下降到30多種。

On the evening of 1/0, Sai said that the hospital is currently short of daily necessities. The wounded and nurses outdoors need mosquito nets, and tents are needed in the event of a typhoon in a few days, because the water tank was destroyed by the earthquake, and he hopes someone will bring a water purifier.

"I must admit that we still have a lot to be desired." Sai said he learned a lot from the unprecedented earthquake. This Dai native of Yunnan Province in China, where he received an earthquake escape education since childhood, knows that Chinese people have a lot of experience in dealing with earthquakes. But for Myanmar, this experience is close to zero.

Beijing News reporter Cong Zhixiang Editor Yang Hai Proofreader Zhang Yanjun