「人道研究ジャーナル」Vol.2

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「人道研究ジャーナル」Vol.2

The Journal of Humanitarian Studies Vol. 2, 2013A nurse dormitory of Party 106 was instantly destroyed completely because it was situated an extremely closerange from the Aioi Bridge. Consequently, female staff the dormitory were killed. The report also highlighted thehorror of radiation disease.Even though it had passed more than thirty years since the war ended when they wrote their memories, theyvividly depicted their dreadful experiences in‘The Mushroom Cloud: Memories of the Japanese Red Cross NursesAttached to the Forces’(13) as the following:Many nurses had nose and mandible ruptures, abrasive wounds and cuts on their legs and suffered from bruises. However,they continued to rescue their patients without treating themselves. [...]We set up a tentative aid station at a bamboo grove alongside of a river near from the Mitaki Branch Hospital for the victims,and made temporal beds with bamboos. The aid station treated seriously burnt injuries. Their conditions were terrible.The station received victims with great burns to their whole back, which had pus with a particular smell. We repeatedlybeat flies away off but they swarmed over the wounded sites. We also found that amounts of pus were covered with manymaggots. They were sucking oozing pus and were wriggling on them. All we could do was pick out maggots one by one withchopsticks. In fact, there were not enough antiseptics and ices. We could help only to reduce high fevers of victims a littlewith well water brought from a small house on a bank of the river. (Hiroshima in Avici: Uninterrupted Hell)Injured people came to the hospital endlessly. I could not distinguish men from women due to their severe whole bodyburns. They were all naked. Their hair and eyebrows were frizzly burnt. Their eyes’shape became like a line and they couldnot open their mouths as their faces were greatly swollen. [...] I had no idea of everything. But I just insanely continued toreceive victims and to treat them. (Monster Cloud)The agonising screams made me to come to myself after the shock. All nurses were injured but we made an all-out of effortto continue rescuing military patients buried under the debris. Our white gown soon became red in blood. Later, the greatfire created rain clouds that led to heavy rain and loud thunder. There was a huge downpour of very black rain on everyonewho was already mostly half dead and utterly lost their minds. [...] An enormous number of severely injured people, whohad whole body burns with skin peeling and hanging down like tattered clothes, headed to the collapsed hospital to havemedical treatment endlessly. (Very Black Rain)On 8 August 1945, I went to the Hiroshima Army Hospital with two nurses due to an order to assist relief. However, a siteof the hospital had nothing due to complete destruction. There were few survivors, indeed. Therefore, we stayed on anartificially made small hill and did some relief activities there. We put saline on wounded skin in order to prevent drying.Saline was actually in an irrigator for enema clyster. We also gave it to patients to drink. (Hanging Down Skin)2. Relief Activities at the Hiroshima Red Cross HospitalThe Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital in Senda-machi in the city of Hiroshima used to receive army patients only;however, at that time it also treated outpatient civilians. Because a number of nurses were deployed throughoutJapan as members of relief parties, there were only 34 nurses on the day of the Hiroshima Atomic Bombing.Certainly, they suffered from a shortage of medical staff. Owing to this, a number of nursing students, who wereacting as interns at the hospital at that time, were very much involved in the relief activities.72人道研究ジャーナルVol. 2, 2013