Hospitals on the brink in Sumatra

The successful operation to rescue injured survivors from remote villages on Indonesia's tsunami-battered Sumatra island is creating a new problem – overflowing hospitals.

Hospitals on the brink in Sumatra

The successful operation to rescue injured survivors from remote villages on Indonesia's tsunami-battered Sumatra island is creating a new problem – overflowing hospitals.

About a dozen people were lying on stretchers on the sidewalk outside the Fakina Hospital in the main city, Banda Aceh.

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