So Burke winds up in limbo at the hellish, overcrowded hospital that the film evokes ruefully well.

But they contend that the city has not given them money to provide enough experienced doctors to handle every shift adequately in overcrowded hospitals.

They have also said Americans and embassy employees were flown out of the country while Kenyans had to make do with overcrowded hospitals.

He cited, for example, the colony's aging, overcrowded hospitals, where the corridors are lined with hundreds of patient beds.

But among the Americans there was some question about whether it was really effective to bring wounded patients to the overcrowded hospitals here.

Diversion is the standard practice of turning ambulances away from overcrowded hospitals.

Ambulances continued to race between villages and overcrowded hospitals.

In addition to those hospitalized, others were unable to receive treatment due to overcrowded hospitals.

Most of these people had recently had typhus and been discharged from the overcrowded hospitals as soon as they were off the critical list.

Today's crisis involves overcrowded hospitals that are facing critical shortages in their nursing staffs.