In Luanda's main hospital, the men's trauma ward reeks with the stench of infected wounds.

Increasingly, the characteristic deep, tiny puncture wounds were filling up the evening news and the city's trauma wards.

Chaundra had grown up on a planet where personal violence was fairly common, and done his internship in a trauma ward.

Outside the trauma ward at Sklifosovsky Hospital on a recent evening, an ambulance driver awaited another call.

The Bosnian chief of Kosovo Hospital's trauma ward told me the hospital had been kept open even after running out of supplies and losing power.

Dr. Mufid Lazovic, the deputy director of the trauma ward, said one day in particular stood out.

Several were taken to pediatric trauma wards, indicating serious injuries.

He is recovering in the surgical trauma ward, with a police guard at the door to his room.

Sometimes, she can almost taste the adrenaline as she registers patients arriving by ambulance or cares for them in one of six trauma wards.

Of the first 35 people brought into the trauma ward, said Dr. Faruk Kulenovic, 5 were already dead.