Care for the wounded at Vukovar Medical Center: new task for two general practitioners

Blanka Vagenhofer I was born in Vukovar in 1960. I graduated from the Zagreb University School of Medicine, Osijek Branch, and did my internship in the Vukovar Medical Center. Before the war, I worked in the pediatric office in Borovo Naselje. Around mid-August, frequent alarms and attacks made it impossible for us to normally proceed with our work, so care for sick children was organized in the hospital. There, I continued to work at the Intensive care Unit. It was my first contact with this field of medicine. At the same time I had to learn and daily cope with practical problems. Several anesthesiologists had left the hospital and those who had arrived to replace them were continuously working in operating theaters. A colleague of mine, in her 2nd year of residence, and I were in charge of intensive care patients. Four to five nurses worked on our shift.