Surgical service at the wartime hospital in Mostar

Autori opisuju i obrađuju kratki predratni period na području Hercegovine i Mostara. Naglašavaju da ih rat nije iznenadio, osim brutalnosti koju je neprijatelj iskazao. Također navode pojedine teške trenutke i dane kada je Ratna bolnica bila pretrpana ranjenicima. Naglasak je na Ratnu kirurgiju i njene djelatnike, koji su neumorno radili i osvjetlali obraz profesiji, te svojim ponašanjem unaprijedili Hipokratovu prisegu.This hospital is located on the first lines of battlefield, which has probably not been recorded in the history of war so far. Although under constant bomb shelling and sniper fire, the hospital was able to accomodate a great number of wounded every day. The average was about 20 wounded per day, but it happened that on June 22nd, 1992, 101 wounded persons were accomodate there. The organizational scheme was set in a way that three surgical teams were formed, consisting of 10 surgeons. The most experienced among them was the chief of the team. Other specialists were also included in these surgical teams. Thanks to the experience of most of our surgeons, we had, in our opinion, quite successful results. The total number of wounded in the above mentioned period was 6741 and 1975 operations under the total anesthesy were performed. Due to the above mentioned scheme, despite extremely inadequate conditions, the mortality rate was 1.8% (67)