Treatment Amid Chaos Peeled skin was dangling like seaweed from their arms Wet, red flesh exposed People were staggering with vacant eyes Extending their arms forward Like ghosts Suddenly they stumbled and fell Never to get up again —From The A-Bomb and Humanity, Hidankyo, 1997 A doctor and nurse treating injured people. The doctor is also injured. At Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital, August 10, 1945. Photograph by Hajime Miyatake, Collection of Asahi Shimbun. A girl transported to Omura Naval Hospital with peeled and shredded skin dangling all over her body. Around August 10 or 11, Nagasaki. Photograph by Masao Shiotsuki, Courtesy of Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum. Patients who could not be accommodated were laid in the shade outside, waiting for treatment. At Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital, August 10, 1945. Photograph by Hajime Miyatake, Collection of Asahi Shimbun.
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