article_snippet.sent: More thousands were injured, many of whom have flooded the capital's overstretched hospitals.
article_snippet.sent: They need more resources, They need more personnel here right now, and They're expecting many more patients as these rescue operations go on.
article_snippet.sent: Bir Hospital, a government facility, is one of the busiest in Kathmandu.
article_snippet.sent: it inpatient wing, now scarred with cracks, was abandoned after big aftershocks Sunday, and doctors have scrambled to accommodate the influx of victims.
article_snippet.sent: Many of the wounded are now across the road from the hospital at the Nepal Army Pavilion, a huge open space in KathmanduKathmandu, and tarps have been erected at the front of the hospital for people to have shelter.
article_snippet.sent: Patients are housed here alongside other local residents who have fled Patients homes, finding shelter under tents.
article_snippet.sent: Bir Hospital is a chaotic scene Monday as ambulances race in discharging new admissions, patients wail on stretchers in the lobby and distraught family members mill about.
article_snippet.sent: we all have about 150 patients, but more are pouring in because the rescue is just happening," neurosurgeon Paresh Mani Shrestha says.
article_snippet.sent: " neurosurgeon Paresh Mani Shrestha says they received about 80 patients from Dharahara, the historic nine-story tower destroyed in the quake.
article_snippet.sent: But now the rescue is underway, and patients are arriving at Bir from less-equipped satellite hospitals.
article_snippet.sent: Among patients is a Western woman in a wheelchair, a Western woman arm in an improvised splint of branches.
article_snippet.sent: Doctors are seeing patients with head injuries, pelvic and lower and upper limb fractures, " neurosurgeon Paresh Mani Shrestha says.
article_snippet.sent: Hospitals were running short on supplies despite international efforts to rush in aid.
highlights_snippet.sent: Patients flood hospitals in Nepalese capital after devastating earthquake .
  