( CNN ) -- As violence in Kiev continues to explode , reports of hotel lobbies and churches being used as makeshift clinics have surfaced on social media and in news reports . Hospitals have also been flooded with patients , including police officers , reports say . Maia Mikhaluk , a CNN iReporter and freelance photographer in Kiev , submitted photos of the Mykhailovsky Cathedral , a Ukrainian Orthodox church , being used as an improvised hospital for wounded protesters . The cathedral started taking in patients Tuesday . `` Wounded were brought here throughout the night . Volunteer doctors did surgeries , treated wounds , '' Mikhaluk said . `` It 's hard to say how many exactly have taken refuge as people keep rotating , some have been taken to hospitals or to homes of Kiev citizens , some went back to street fights . But there have been definitely several hundred . '' Twitter user @ BSpringnote reported crowds at the cathedral , where medicine , food and clothing are being delivered . Hours earlier he posted a photo showing the elaborate interior of the church , set against people sprawled in makeshift beds across the floor . He did not immediately respond to CNN 's request for an interview . CNN reporters in Kiev report that a hotel converted into a triage center , bodies covered in bloodied sheets lay on the floor while Orthodox priests prayed over them . The name of the hotel was not mentioned . In a powerful narrative CNN cameraman Todd Baxter describes the scene as he grabbed his camera and ran the hotel stairs . `` As I ran , I noticed bullet holes in the stairwell windows . Three had pierced through a second-floor window . Three more had shattered through another window . `` And then I saw the bodies . `` There were five bodies underneath the stairs , lifeless feet peeking out of the white sheets that covered them . There were more bodies lined up just feet from the reception desk . They were wrapped in white sheets and red splotches bled through . '' BBC reporter Duncan Crawford described an `` intense situation '' at a Kiev hotel lobby-turned-hospital . He said some of the protesters had severe injuries . He posted photos on Twitter of the injured being treated . Stay with CNN and CNN iReport for continued coverage .
In hospital rooms , hospitals become clinics , morgues . At a hotel next to a triage center , an elderly priest watches over wounded . At a cathedral , CNN iReporter says ` ` wounded were brought here throughout the night ''